Trelawney's predictions in "HBP"?
jelly92784
jelly92784 at yahoo.com
Tue Jun 27 15:54:27 UTC 2006
No: HPFGUIDX 154439
Jennifer wrote:
"Two of Spades: conflict. Seven of Spades: an ill omen. Ten of
Spades: violence. Knave of Spades: a dark young man, possibly
troubled, one who dislikes the questioner
".
Can anyone tell me if she's reading an event that happens later in
the HBP (like the Malfoy situation) or something else? Like I said
it's a bit of a trivial question but it's been really bugging me. I
cant help feeling I'm missing the obvious.
Janelle: I tend to read this section as a warning that we should
take Trelawny more seriously than we have in the past. Harry, "a
dark young man" is standing, hidden, listening to Trelawny "the
questioner" make these predictions. I think it's interesting that
she seems to get something right, if she is in fact referring to the
fact that Harry is there and that he dislikes her, and then she just
writes it off saying, "that can't be right" or something to that
effect. I always read this passage as a hint that we should pay
more attention to the things that Trelawney says because she tends
to be right more often than we are originally led to believe.
As I reread what I wrote above I realized that when she draws the
Knave of Spades she ends up referring to something happening right
at that moment, Harry's presence. Could it be that the other cards,
the two, seven, and ten of spades are also representing something
that is happening right then or that happened immediately before
this moment? "Conflict", "an ill omen", and "violence". I really
wish I had my books with me so I could re-read this chapter and find
out what happens around that same time. I'd also go back and read
the chapter of PoA where Harry looks at that book about bad omens,
you know, the one wiht the Grim on the cover. There could be some
sort of interesting connection there.
Also, could the knave of spades, the card representing Harry, be
significant in some way?
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