[HPforGrownups] Trelawney's Disappearance --Theory

[fair wynn]

No: HPFGUIDX 161827

Jen
>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.

wynnleaf
I was just thinking about this theory today and wondering if HPforGrownups 
ever discussed this one.  It's been a long debate on the Lexicon forum.

Why would Voldemort want the prophecy so intensely and then give up looking 
for it in HBP?

And what about Cissy and Bella's comments?  What had Voldemort and others 
tried and failed to do?  Kill Dumbledore?  or get the prophecy?  We *know* 
they'ed tried and failed to get the prophecy.  Snape may have not known what 
they were referring to, and so his comments about thinking Voldemort meant 
for him to do it don't necessarily discredit the notion that Voldmort was 
really trying to get the prophecy.

And Dumbledore said several times in OOTP and HBP that Trelawney had to stay 
in Hogwarts to be safe.  Are those just throwaway lines?  They make no 
difference?  Or are we supposed to pay as little attention to that as Harry, 
and be surprised to find Trelawney gone in Book 7?

Was Draco's primary task to kill Dumbledore?  Or did he start making 
attempts on Dumbledore's life because his real task wasn't turning out very 
well and he was hoping to placate Voldemort with these other attempts?  
Draco was quite cocky on the train for a kid who's supposedly assigned to 
kill the most powerful wizard that even Voldemort is afraid of.  But suppose 
Draco's task was really to get DE's into the castle and effect the 
kidnapping of Trelawney?

Or -- even if Draco was origianlly assigned to kill DD -- what if Voldemort 
(who perhaps didn't think Draco could kill DD anyway), was really searching 
for a way to get his DE's into the castle and get to Trelawney?

Trelawney wasn't mentioned as being at the funeral, even though she got a 
lot of pages in the book.  Nobody missed her, but that wouldn't be 
surprising.  They'd all assume she was up in her rooms drinking sherry.

One might think that if the target of the DE's was Trelawney, why did Draco 
get rid of her in the RoR?  Well, he might have been startled and not known 
it was her.  Or he might have just not been ready.  After all, the DE's had 
not yet arrived.

I'd be interested in hearing other opinions on this theory.

wynnleaf

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