LV's bigger plan / Trelawney at the funeral or not?

[hickengruendler]

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> Dana:
 
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> Yet JKR found it important enough to include Trelawney just before
> the climax of the book. Why? It adds nothing to the plot line, it
> doesn't push the story forward because even her mentioning that
> someone in RoR was celebrating adds nothing specifically, even if it
> prepares the reader that something is going to happen, but we are
> already set up for that by Harry's own actions.
> The Snape part also adds nothing specifically to the plot of HBP or
> even the main plot because eventually the messenger of the prophecy
> has no importance to how the receiver of the message acts on it.  

Hickengruendler:

Trelawney serves as a source for information, here. She is the one to 
tell Harry, that Snape was the eavesdropper. Since Dumbledore 
probably never would have told this Harry at this point (because he 
wanted to work the two of them together), JKR needed another 
character to give Harry and the readers this information. And 
Trelawney really was the most likely candidate, seeing that she was 
there as well. The other possible candidate would have been 
Aberforth, but it within the walls of Hogwarts it is much more likely 
for Harry to meet Trelawney than Aberforth. Not to mention that 
Aberforth as a member of the Order is more likely to stay quiet about 
this than Trelawney. (I only assume this, of course, sine we haven't 
properly met Aberforth so far).