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

[June Ewing]

No: HPFGUIDX 190051

> 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?
>
> June: I do not remember that, what page is that mentioned on?
>
> Steve:
> It is not in the HP books, it is just a secondary fact from
> general history.
>
> A mention of it can be found in the HP-Lexicon, the encyclopedia
> of all knowledge "Potter", under Cassandra Trelawney -
> http://www.hp-lexicon.org/wizards/a-z/t.html#Trelawney_Cassandra
>
> And here in the "Encyclopedia Mythica" -
> http://www.pantheon.org/articles/c/cassandra.html


June:
I am sorry to point this out (and I supposed it won't be allowed
but I will try) but this is not about the character of Trelawney
from Harry Potter. This refers to the real life Cassandra from
the time of the trojan war. She had tried to warn her people
about the trojan horse which was sent in by the other side and
was filled with the enemy but because of a curse put upon her,
no one believed her and they let the horse in and were all killed.
Trelawney's great grandmother as we all know was named Cassandra
and from what I saw in the first article here her name came from
the trojan Cassandra but the curse was on the latter.