What HP Character Scares You Most?

rtbthw_mom thedossetts at gmail.com
Sat Mar 3 14:44:07 UTC 2012


No: HPFGUIDX 191876



--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Bart Lidofsky <bart at ...> wrote:
>
> On 3/2/2012 3:04 PM, Corey overton wrote:
> > Oh and on a side note what do you guys think of Trelaney?
> >
> 
> Bart:
>      JKR portrayed Cooking Sherry as one who had a genuine ability for 
> prognostication, except that she didn't trust in her own abilities. One 
> of the telling moments is when she's going down the hall, reading the 
> cards, comes up with a 100% accurate statement, then discards it as too 
> ridiculous.
> 
>      Bart
>

Pat:
 
Absolutely. I am rereading the series with my son, and it amazes me at just how prescient Trelawny really is. Not just in book 6 - all through the series. We are on Goblet of Fire right now, and of course every class she's telling Harry that "death is coming" - and it did, just not Harry's. Trelawny is the character who really has a gift - she just doesn't trust it enough, and tries too hard to second guess what she has seen and decide what exactly it means - when really, it isn't always up to the seer to say what it means. (see ancient Greece.)

Pat





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