[HPforGrownups] Professor Trelawney

[Margaret Dean]

No: HPFGUIDX 189565

On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 11:42 PM, Allan <ocegree at yahoo.com> wrote:
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> She only got it right twice in her life. I think Professor Dumbledore kept her at Hogwarts to protect her... if she were living outside she would have been killed by Voldemort. He would have believed she was the real thing and consider her a threat. But she was not. Dumbledore knew that and that is why she was not allowed to leave Hogwarts in HP OP. That is what I think. Any thoughts.

My opinion of Professor Trelawney is that she was capable of making
true predictions -- it happened twice, after all! -- but she didn't
have any kind of control over the gift, and you can't make a living on
that!  So the rest of the time she made do with hokum, the
stock-in-trade of fortune tellers the world over.


--Margaret Dean
  <margdean56 at gmail.com>