CHAPT DISC: Prisoner of Azkaban Chapter 13: Gryffindo...

[nikkalmati]

No: HPFGUIDX 190045



--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, June Ewing <doctorwhofan02 at ...> wrote:
>
> Shelley:
> > I agree! I think we have the prospective as readers of following
> Harry and Hermione of being from a Muggle society when they entered
> into this Wizarding World. They spot easily the superstition and
> lack of logic that comes with that lack of questioning how magic
> works because Wizards aren't used to analyzing magic- for Wizards,
> magic just works, and that's all they need to know. So they don't
> question divination or prophesies, because to them, that's just one
> (valid?) magical ability. <snip> So also Hermione's reaction is
> seen as insensitive because if she were a proper Witch, she would
> have just accepted Trelawney as normal for this society. Instead
> she doesn't accept those gifts as real, and it causes a cultural
> clash with Lavender, because the two girls don't see where each
> other is coming from. I think it's a clash that would have happened
> anyway, even if this scene hadn't been coupled with the rabbit
> dying. <snip> <
> 
> 
> June:
> The only thing wrong with the thought of Hermione not being
> brought up in the wizarding world so she doesn't believe Trelawney
> to be the real thing is that most the staff doesn't believe her to
> be the real thing either. McGonagall and Umbridge who are both
> pure bloods didn't believe in her. McGonagall found her to be
> annoying when she stated up at Christmas time with her "when 13
> dine" routine and even Dumbledore only hired her because of the
> prophecy to protect her.
>
Nikkalmati

But the curse put on the original Trojan Cassandra (probably not Trelawney's grandmother) was that she would correctly predict the future, but that no one would believe her.  See the parallel?

Nikkalmati