{"id":135548,"date":"2015-09-21T00:15:19","date_gmt":"2015-09-21T00:15:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/09\/21\/sansasparkles-something-thats-bothered-me\/"},"modified":"2015-09-21T00:15:19","modified_gmt":"2015-09-21T00:15:19","slug":"sansasparkles-something-thats-bothered-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/09\/21\/sansasparkles-something-thats-bothered-me\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

sansasparkles<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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something that\u2019s bothered me since i read hp, and something which i haven\u2019t seen any posts about to my memory is \u2026 sybil trelawney.<\/p>\n

because the thing is, we know that she made the prophecy which essentially made harry the chosen one. we also witness her making a prophecy regarding voldemort\u2019s return (which i don\u2019t think harry told anyone about? HARRY NO).<\/p>\n

and i don\u2019t \u2026 think she knows this.<\/p>\n

when she makes the prophecy regarding voldemort\u2019s return, she has a sort of fit that she awakens from, seemingly unaware of what has just passed, to harry\u2019s disturbance. when he asks her about it, she seems confused and acts as if she just dozed off.<\/p>\n

if we assume the prophecy regarding the chosen one was a similar occurrence – that all of sybil\u2019s prophecies take place in this manner – it\u2019s no wonder she\u2019s self conscious about her inability to prophesy on demand. she has no idea that she really is a prophetess. even if those two prophecies are the only ones she ever made, they are clearly HUGE prophecies – they predict changes in the course of wizarding history!<\/p>\n

so, if we assume that sybil was never told that she made these earth-shattering predictions \u2026 what if she later found out?<\/p>\n

like ok. some time after the war harry\u2019s catching up with professor mcgonagall, and he just lets slip the deal with the prophecy in the ministry and dumbledore\u2019s plans etc, and probably mentions offhand that trelawney made these predictions.<\/p>\n

and mcgonagall, after recovering from the shock of the real depth of dumbledore\u2019s plans, says:<\/p>\n

\u201cpotter. potter, are you telling me that your former teacher, my colleague, sybil trelawney, is a legitimate prophetess? the same trelawney who once told you that you would grow up to be minister for magic and have twelve children after predicting you would die every year that your attended her classes? that <\/i>trelawney?\u201d<\/p>\n

and harry, who has considered the oddness of it all before but never quite realised how it would look to other people, says \u201c\u2026 oh. oh yeah. i didn\u2019t really think much about it too much what with the war and all.\u201d (understandable, harry.)<\/p>\n

and mcgonagall says \u201c\u2026 did you ever inform her of this? did dumbledore ever tell her the truth?\u201d privately thinking i knew he hired her for a reason, my god.<\/i><\/p>\n

and poor harry just says \u201cwell \u2026 no. i don\u2019t think so. i asked her what she was talking about when she made the prophecy about pettigrew, but she didn\u2019t seem to understand what i was saying.\u201d<\/p>\n

so obviously now minerva has a dilemma on her hands. after she\u2019s bid harry goodbye, she probably sits in her office and just. thinks. about what to do.<\/p>\n

and then she sends sybil an owl inviting her to tea.<\/p>\n

sybil arrives in a swirl of Dramatic Robes and peers at her suspiciously, because while they\u2019ve mellowed out a little since she was fired during umbridge\u2019s reign, they\u2019re still not exactly close friends.<\/p>\n

sybil sniffs and says\u00a0\u201cyes, hello minerva. i predicted this turn of events, of course. i assume you are disappointed in my delving into the mystical diving arts, as usual, being as you are immune to their effects, but i have decided to allow you your conversation as a gesture of grace.\u201d<\/p>\n

and minerva says,\u00a0\u201chave a biscuit, sybil.\u201d<\/p>\n

and \u2026 minerva tells her the truth. she tells her everything that harry told her, the details of the prophecies, why dumbledore kept it from her, why she doesn\u2019t remember making <\/i>the prophecies.<\/p>\n

sybil is really quiet while all this is being said and minerva feels increasingly awkward, eventually running out of things to say.<\/p>\n

but just as she\u2019s about to suggest another cup of tea, sybil bursts into tears and practically leaps across the table to hug her. minerva feels much more awkward than before, but decides to pat her back and try to be comforting, as best as she can be in the circumstances.<\/p>\n

and from that point on, trelawney is different. she loses a lot of the affectations and airs and just \u2026 seems a lot more comfortable in herself. she\u2019s still interested in divination, of course, she\u2019s dedicated her life to it and now she knows she actually is a prophetess she probably wants to learn more about why she doesn\u2019t remember making those prophecies.<\/p>\n

but she stops predicting students will die and her drinking eases off a lot. she still has a flair for the dramatic but it no longer seems desperate, now she\u2019s free to have a bit of fun scaring the students and making them laugh in equal measure.<\/p>\n

and sometimes she\u2019ll invite minerva down for tea, and while they\u2019re still far from best friends, things have changed between them now. they have a new kind of trust in one another, just enough to be able to sit down in the late hogwarts spring sometimes and chat. and for both of them, having hogwarts survive the war, and understanding themselves just a bit better, is enough.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

sansasparkles: something that\u2019s bothered me since i read hp, and something which i haven\u2019t seen any posts about to my memory is \u2026 sybil trelawney. because the thing is, we know that she made the prophecy which essentially made harry the chosen one. we also witness her making a prophecy regarding voldemort\u2019s return (which i … <\/p>\n

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