Chapter Discussion: Prisoner of Azkaban Ch 16: Professor Trelawney's prediction

[June Ewing]

No: HPFGUIDX 190219

Bart:
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.


June:
Actually her thinking that it is a grim she is seeing in Harry's
tea cup would be an easy mistake to make because Sirius appears
in the tea cup in his dog form so although at that time it is
scary for some and just plain ridiculous to others, it is not
ridiculous at all. In fact a lot of her predictions do come true
(the cards later on come to mind) and even the prediction of
Lavander's Rabbit. True she was not really worried about the
rabbit but what if she is just a chronic worrier. She could have
been worried that something horrible would happen and Trelawny
could have picked up on that and could have been right. She isn't
the fraud everyone thinks she is and to be honest I actually
thought she would have a much bigger part in the final outcome of
the books.








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