Trelawney

[finwitch]

No: HPFGUIDX 148132


> Magpie:
> Going on your description since I can't remember what happened 
> exactly, "the thing you dread" is a standard fake-out for a 
> psychic.  She didn't tell Lavender anything.  She let Lavender 
> herself fill in the blanks after the fact and decide she was 
> dreading bad news.  Anything bad that happened Lavender would have 
> claimed was the prediction.  Lavender is a particularly willing 
> assistant in Trelawney's charade.

Finwitch:

That's the thing - Hermione may think so. When Lavender filled in the
blank, that 'thing she dreaded' became Binky's death due to Hermione's
question.

'I was obviously dreading him dying, wasn't I?'

And then Hermione puts an end to the thing by pointing out that Binky
didn't die that day, Lavender only recieved the news of it that day.

But in truth, when I (re-)read the description of the situation when
Trelawney gave that prediction... She had done that grandmother-thing
with Neville, told Parvati to beware a redheaded man, etc. So, when
she turned to Lavender, Lavender (quite obviously IMO) expected to
hear bad news and dreaded that. However, Trelawney merely asked her to
pour the tea and then said: 'By the way, that thing you are dreading
will happen...'.

The prediction was about hearing bad news, which came true. Both
Lavender and Hermione erred in interpreting it to be 'Binky being
eaten by a fox/dying'. And note, it was Hermione who began it.

Personally, I wonder if Luna took Divination...

Finwitch