[HPforGrownups]Trelawny

[Bart Lidofsky]

No: HPFGUIDX 166330

From: houyhnhnm102 <celizwh at intergate.com>
>Speaking of Trelawney, the right old fraud.  I just got 
>through reading the part in PoA where Harry is taking 
>his Divination exam immediately before Trelawney went 
>into a trance and delivered her true prophecy about Wormtail.

Bart:
I've been re-reading the books, carefully, looking for various clues about various characters (I'm about 10% through GOF right now), and there are two things I have observed about Trelawny:

1) Divination DOES work in the Potterverse.
2) It's unreliable. Virtually every sign she gets is correct; it's just that all too often, she misinterprets it, especially when she lets her other knowledge get in the way. 

One thing of note is that Trelawny is pretty good about minor events (look at the description of the first class in POA), while the centaurs seem to concentrate on major events. 

Bart