[HPforGrownups] Re: Chapter Discussion: Prisoner of Azkaban Ch 16: Professor Trelawney's prediction

[Bart Lidofsky]

No: HPFGUIDX 190215

Alla:
>> I don't know, I see your interpretation, but to me it sounds
>> more like her is believing that she made this prediction,
>> rather than reference that she was consciously making stuff up
>> before, you know?
>>
>> But I definitely see your interpretation, especially since most
>> of her predictions are so silly and do not come true, one cannot
>> help but wonder whether she did made them up.
> Margie:
>
> It seems to me that this part of the story shows she does have
> some confidence in her reading of the cards since she seems to
> have tried to discuss it with Dumbledore more than once and is
> clearly convinced by it.

     What I see is a running joke: Trelawny's methods do work, but she 
lacks confidence in her own abilities, and often makes the wrong 
interpretation, and apparently due to timidity. When she is going 
through the cards while unaware that Harry is listening, or even in her 
first appearance,
where she sees Sirius in Harry's tea leaves and treats it as a Grim.

     Bart