Trelawney's Disappearance --Theory

[Jen Reese]

No: HPFGUIDX 161820

All this talk of Trelawney made me wonder again where she was from 
the time Harry saw her outside the Room of Requirement through the 
end of the year.  The easy answer is she was in her tower drinking 
sherry and never knew what happened, but that's not very exciting 
<g>.  Practically everyone Harry has ever met in the WW was at the 
funeral--including all the professors Harry has had for classes--yet 
Trelawney isn't even mentioned! 

If Trelawney knew one of her predictions was SO right down to the 
last Tarot card, she'd be all over it to avenge her public 
humilation and to demand Firenze's firing as the second Divination 
teacher.  I can just see her at the funeral praising her own Seer 
abilites far and wide, dabbing her eyes behind those overly large 
glasses while intimating that if *only* Dumbledore had listened to 
her he might still be alive...

She's also not mentioned being around the night of the DE attack 
even though her tower is near the seventh floor & the Room of 
Requirement, where not once but *twice* there were loud noises in 
the hallway.

Now backtracking to the beginning of the year, Voldemort of the 
great and convoluted plans finds out from Draco there's a way into 
Hogwarts and he sets Draco not only the task of fixing the Vanishing 
Cabinent, but killing Dumbledore on the side (or vice-versa), 
something no one thinks is possible.  The UV ensues to save Draco 
and the events begin to unfold.

Yet behind all this overt drama which distracts Dumbledore, Snape, 
and the Order, there's one crucial piece of the puzzle still eluding 
Voldemort:  How to kill Harry Potter?  Getting Dumbledore out of the 
way will remove Harry's biggest defender but the full contents of 
the Prophecy is the tantalizing key to LV's survival in his mind.  
He spent an entire year setting up the circumstances to obtain the 
prophecy, failed, and then decided to drop it?  No, that doesn't fit 
his obsession with immortality above all else.

Voldemort learned from his mistakes in GOF and especially in OOTP 
that having one plan Dumbledore is alerted to early on and which he 
attempts to figure out or thwart leads to disaster, that he needs to 
plan for a goal behind the goal, killing two birds with one stone.  
So he devises another plan behind the smoke and mirrors of killing 
Dumbledore and this one is even more important to him & likely 
behind some of death threats he hurls at Draco.

Voldemort probably doesn't know if Trelawney can regurgitate the 
prophecy but she's also his only shot.  So while DE's were filing 
into Hogwarts from the Vanishing Cabinent behind the cover of 
Peruvian powder, one lone DE was making her way to the North Tower, 
a place she remembers from her days as a student at Hogwarts.  This 
abduction may have even been Bella's idea, a proposal she thinks of 
while working with Draco, an attempt to redeem herself in the Dark 
Lord's eyes.  So with all the confusion in the halls & on the 
grounds along with the shouts about the Dark Mark in the sky, no one 
hears Trelawney's muffled screams as she's taken back through the 
Vanishing Cabinent and delivered to Voldemort.
  
Jen, who wants this to be true if only to read what transpired 
between Bellatrix and Trelawney <g>.