[HPforGrownups] Re: Two Plot Problems

[Lynda Cordova]

No: HPFGUIDX 187619

JLyon:
> I thought that Trelawney's statement implied that Snape was with
> Bumbles the whole time or, at least, throughout the whole prophesy.

Mike:
I thought she was pretty clear. She thought she had dozed off, when
she was actually delivering the prophecy. When she came out of the
trance, when she thought she woke up, she heard a commotion at the
door and then the door burst open to reveal Snape and Aberforth. Albus
was in the room the whole time.

In my reading, when Dumbledore said he was getting up to leave, I
pictured him half way to the door when Sibyll starts delivering the
prophecy. He stops, turns around and watches, but he's close enough to
the door to hear the commotion going on outside to know about when it
starts in relation to where Sibyll is at. He's pretty sure that Snape
only got this first part, but that's not going to stop him from
questioning Snape on the windswept hill about how much he told to
Voldemort.


Lynda:

I've never seen any plot hole in this either. Trelawny thought she
fell asleep, when in actuality she went into a trance. Dumbledore was
not going to hire her and prior to Trelawny's slipping into trance was
ready to tell her and leave, but then, the prophecy, the scrabbling at
the door and the sudden realization that Snape had been eavesdropping
that was interrupted by Aberforth, therefore insuring that Snape did
not hear the entire prophecy.
Well explained in the story, understandable, and there's no plot hole there.

Lynda