Connecting the dots

[Barry Arrowsmith]

--- In the_old_crowd at yahoogroups.com, "snow15145" <kking0731 at g...> wrote:
> 
> 
> Ahhh! Trelawney, one of my very favorites! A very good connection, 
> one I've never connected, sounds very similar. Trelawney and Ginny 
> don't remember all they've said or done. To what degree may Trelawney 
> have been used to benefit the outcome?
> 
> So I take it you don't like the lovely Ms. Trelawney much, nor do 
> many others. I wont go off on her because it is very unimportant to 
> the scheme of things but the eavesdropper business is just too much. 
> Dumbledore and/or the barkeep were well aware that this person had 
> heard any extent of the prophecy and they allowed him a slap on the 
> wrist with a lifetime ban to a low-life pub, doesn't seem to make a 
> lick of sense unless they used this person to their benefit. (Dung 
> comes to mind) If they couldn't use this person why didn't they just 
> use a memory charm on him so that any information he had could not be 
> remembered nor repeated? Seems apropos that they use this character 
> to their benefit if he could be gently influenced (the Dursley's) to 
> do so.
> 
>

Kneasy:
Like?
I think she's vastly entertaining - a daft old bat, totally useless, who manages
to fool no-one but herself. Wonderful character.

And there are other reasons too - we can draw a wonderful parallel. 
(If you're the slightest bit egotistical, don't read this. You might get huffy.)  

The parallel is with us, the fans.

Where Sybil totally fails to get it right using Astrology, Crystallomancy and
Tasseography (tea leaves), we mange to get it wrong using Stichomancy 
(divination of the future by means of passages in books). What a splendid
irony when we castigate her for being a bumbler!

To add to the merriment, there are those who counsel that we should be
sensible and logical in making predictions about a bunch of books that have 
as their basic premise an idea (a magical boy and a magical world) which is 
totally nonsensical, illogical, not to say downright impossible.

Sometimes I sit in front of my computer screen giggling uncontrollably; it's
all just too hilarious and ridiculous for words. Then I start composing my
next post incorporating the next outrageous idea - and I start laughing again.
I have a lot of fun on these boards but I'm pretty sure that most of the fans,
if they stopped and thought about it, would agree that it's all totally barmy.

Mind you, I'm fairly sure I'm not being manipulated by DD, so I'm ahead
of Sybil on points - 'cos the more I think about it, the more attractive the 
idea that she is seems.

Must think about putting together a fairly comprehensive post about
Sybil, raise her profile a bit. Hopefully it might get some member's brain
to come up with a new idea or two that we can have some fun with.