Of Souls and Death - Dumbledore's Intent

[Geoff Bannister]

No: HPFGUIDX 148962

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Miles" <miles at ...> wrote:

Miles:

> Just to put another question into the discussion: Why don't we dive 
into the
> pensieve to listen to the prophecy? Why don't we hear any sounds 
apart from
> Trelawny's voice in the memory version Dumbledore presents to Harry 
(and to
> us)?

Geoff:
I often find that if I am concentrating on, say, a conversation in a 
noisy environment, I subconsciously filter out background noise and 
often don't even remember that a CD player or something of that ilk 
was blasting away behind me.

If Dumbledore was concentrating hard on what Trelawney was 
prophesying, he may have been doing the same. No clinking of empty 
glasses or bawdy bar-room songs from the main area, no thuds of 
bodies being ejected... Just Sybill holding forth.