Prophesies RE: [HPforGrownups] Re: Who calls Voldemort "Lord"

[Geoff Bannister]

No: HPFGUIDX 149673

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Tiffany Black" <tifflblack at ...> wrote:
>
> 
> Geoff:
> This does in fact raise a question in my mind. Where do prophecies come
> from? Why are they sent?
> 
> In Christian and Jewish terms, prophecies are sent to believers. There are
> numerous examples in the Bible. But in the Wizarding World?
> 
> The fact that Dumbledore heard the first and Harry the second almost
> suggests that they are sent to the "good" side to warn them and that
> characters like Voldemort only get hold of them because they hear
> second-hand that they have been revealed.
> 
> What do the rest of you guys out there think?
> 
> I prophesy that this might start a new thread.
> :-)


> Tiffany:
> Actually, own of my greatest fears for the seventh book is that Voldemort
> will get hold of Trelawney and figure out that she only prophesies drunk, so
> he'll feed her on cooking sherry and keep her locked up where only he can
> hear her, kind of like a human sized bird cage.

Geoff:
You are maligning the dear Professor because she only seems to have taken to the bottle 
after her run-in with Dolores Umbridge in OOTP.

When she prophesies in POA, it is during the exams and occurs at the very end of Harry's 
individual session with her. She has been testing students from her group for some long 
time and, although she seems to be her usual slightly detached self, no one suggests 
anything more sinister than that. When she met with Dumbledore in early 1980 at the 
Three Broomsticks, she was applying for a teaching post and would hardly be inebriated 
for such a meeting.