What HP Character Scares You Most?

[nikkalmati]

No: HPFGUIDX 191894



--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "rtbthw_mom" <thedossetts at ...> wrote:
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> Pat:
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> 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.)
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Nikkalmati

I agree that Trelawny is always spot-on in her predictions just not in interpreting them.  We are supposed to be reminded of Cassandra of Troy, who was given the gift of Sight, but cursed that no one would believe her.  I don't know if curses can be handed down, or even that Trelawny is a descendent of "the" Cassandra, but it certainly is true that no one in the series, including Trelawny herself, believes what she predicts -  except for Voldemort, of course.  It seems the curse extends to the readership also because she certainly gets no respect from them either.  

Nikkalmati