A Trelawney Thought

[Kim]

No: HPFGUIDX 153690

In "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban", Professor Trelawney joins the small group that stayed behind for the Christmas holidays.  They're having dinner together and are a group of 12.  

Page 228 of the US paperback version says:

As he did indeed draw a chair in midair with his wand, which revolved for a few seconds before falling with a thud between professors Snape and McGonagall, Professor Trelawney, however, did not sit down; her enormous eyes had been roving around the table, and she suddenly uttered a kind of soft scream.  

"I dare not, Headmaster!"  If I join the table, we shall be thirteen!  Nothing could be more unlucky!  Never forget that when thirteen dine together, the first to rise will be the first to die!

Then on page 230:

Professor Trelawney behaved almost normally until the very end of Christmas dinner, two hours later.  Full to bursting with Christmas dinner and still wearing their party hats, Harry and Ron got up first from the table and she shrieked loudly.
"My dears!  Which of you left his seat first?  Which?
"Dunno, " said Ron, looking uneasily at Harry.
"I doubt it will make much difference," said Professor McGonnegal coldly, "unless a mad axe-man is waiting outside the doors to slaughter the first into the entrance hall."

So in my exhaustive search for one tiny little spark of hope that Dumbledore may yet live...  I submit that as he was not the first to rise from the table that fateful Christmas dinner, he will not be the first of the group to die.  

Um... that means either Ron or Harry will be.  Do we really want to sacrifice either of them for Dumbledore?  I think I need a headache draught.

Kim

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