And the Trelawney award goes to.....(Re: Do we really get our closer?)

[Mike]

No: HPFGUIDX 177250

> > Jen:  
> > <BIG SNIP>
> > To get the ball rolling.....my two biggest failed
> > predictions, the ones I wrote about ad nauseum,
> > OH-so-certain I was on the right track *sniff sniff*:
> > <HUGE SNIP>
> > My closest prediction was......drumroll......taken 
> > straight from the Prediction contest (throw out 
> > that first line <g>):
> > 

Mike:
Let's see... my worst prediction, huh? Gosh, there were sooo many
bad ones it's hard to choose.;) Alright, I'll have to go with this
one. I thought Snape and Dumbledore were in cahoots with the release
of the prophesy. I mean, that whole bombshell from Trelawney about
Snape being at the door *AFTER* she finished the prophesy, jeez, 
it looked too much like a set-up. But I was wrong, Neri was right, 
I tip my hat to your wisdom sir. :D

A few of my other predictions that went bad sprang directly from 
this one. Too many eggs, not enough baskets, I guess.

For my best prediction, hmmm, slim pickins here. But I have to go 
with my guess that Tom Riddle had already made a Horcrux by the time 
of the Pensieve Sluggy chat. And that all Tom's hemming and hawing 
was simply leading up to the question of *how many* can one make?

My next best one, I can really only take partial credit. I'll let 
Steve lead in:

> bboyminn:
> 
> <snippity-do-dah snippity-day> 
> 
> Harry a Horcrux -
> 
> I was sure this was wrong. However in a discussion
> I did say that /if/ it was true, then /this/ is
> how it would have happened. Someone has already
> quoted that post showing how dead on I was. 

Mike:
That was me, Steve, thought you deserved the kudos. :D

This ties to my most successful prediction, which, though remarkably
close to yours, was done without the aid if yours, since I found
that post after DH. Mine was on TK's contest question about what
were the Horcruxes. And I quote:

g. In Harry, but not encased as the other Horcruxes, it's in him
accidentally and likes it there. :)

Unlike you Steve, I had always believed that Harry had a piece of 
VoldieSoul, but I originally kept trying to figure out how to make 
an accidental Horcrux. It was Snow that turned me on to the idea
of a non-encased soul piece. So, I really should give her full credit 
for this prediction.



> bboyminn:
> 
> Slytherin Redemption -
> 
> I predicted that Slytherin would always be Slytherin.
> In my view Slytherins created their problems, it's
> up to Slytherins to fix it. I also predicted that our
> vision of Slytherin was warped because we don't 
> actually get to see MOST Slytherins. We get to see a 
> small but unpleasant subset of Slytherins.

Mike:
I made no predictions on the Slytherin problem, but I have always 
agreed with this viewpoint, and I was glad to see that you were 
right with this line of thinking.

Mike, who didn't really make a lot of predictions on his own, but 
rather picked from others predictions which ones he liked best. :)