What was professor trelawneys prophecy

Previously, he wisely counseled Harry to heed his friends' advice, rather than listen to his enemies. Upon hearing Buckbeak's fate, he vocally opposes the Ministry 's actions directly to Fudge, outraged over an obvious injustice that is being inflicted on innocent victims.

Only Hermione's intervention prevents him from saying more and possibly damaging his father's position within the Ministry. For once, Ron not only speaks out against something he believes is wrong, but also expresses compassion for others. Though usually showing little concern regarding matters unrelated to himself, Ron here steps outside himself, and he is certainly correct that Buckbeak's execution is a mockery, one that has been orchestrated by the malicious Mr.

Malfoy purely from spite. It is perhaps worth noting that Ron has jumped to a conclusion here. The presence of the executioner does not mean that the appeal is a foregone conclusion. Contrary to the US system in which inmates can be kept on Death Row for extended periods, the English system does not keep the condemned prisoner alive for an extended time after final appeals have been exhausted.

Buckbeak has one remaining shot at an appeal, and if that fails, it is a mercy to have the execution done quickly to eliminate a long period of anticipation. It is not, strictly speaking, necessary, given the efficient Wizarding transportation network, to have all three members of the Committee arrive at the same time; the executioner could be summoned only after the appeal fails, of course.

The executioner's appearance here is largely for dramatic effect, though Fudge's arrival seems somehow forced. Perhaps Fudge is supervising as a favour to Lucius Malfoy, and to the voting bloc that he seems to informally represent.

Hermione, meanwhile, has come face-to-face with her greatest fear: failing all her classes. She does, however, show courage and loyalty when she unhesitatingly retrieves Harry's Invisibility Cloak, knowing that, if caught, she could be disciplined and lose House points for helping him. She further shows her loyalty by accompanying Ron and Harry to Hagrid's hut to comfort him during this difficult time.

Study questions are meant to be left for each student to answer; please don't answer them here. Although Harry's fabricated prediction that Buckbeak flies safely away is wishful thinking on his part, it actually foreshadows events in the book's conclusion. It is perhaps lucky that Harry is aware that he is making this up; if he had been a little less sure of himself, he might have thought that he had a touch of the Talent.

Trelawney's strange pronouncement is a true Prophecy, and Dumbledore later tells us that it is the second genuine one that he is aware of. The first concerned Harry and Voldemort, and occurred while she was being interviewed for the Divination position by Dumbledore.

It is apparently on the strength of that first prophecy that Dumbledore has kept her on staff; this second one will surely bolster that decision. Otherwise, it would seem that he shares the staff's general opinion that Divination is purest flummery, hardly deserving a place at Hogwarts.

The reader may believe that this is a true prophecy; it is certainly delivered in a convincing manner. If so, the reader will be misled by the belief that Black is the Dark Lord's servant. It is true that Black, imprisoned in Azkaban , could be said to be chained "these past twelve years", except that he has by now been free for almost a year. Despite the various bits of foreshadowing — the Sneakoscope , the revelation of the Animagus transform, Black's attack on Ron, and Crookshanks' repeated attacks on Scabbers — we are somehow unable to predict that Scabbers will be unmasked as the Animagus form of Peter Pettigrew.

The Invisibility Cloak has lain, undiscovered, in the secret passage leading from Hogwarts to Hogsmeade after Harry was forced to abandon it there in mid-April. It remained there until early June, when Hermione went to retrieve it. We know that Black was in the school on the night after the match against Ravenclaw, before the Cloak is dropped in the passage, and Harry sees him in his Animagus form the night before the Slytherin match, after it had been left.

Did Black enter the school via that passage? Ron, however, found the Prophecy with Harry's name on it on row It read:. T are the initials of Sybill Patricia Trelawney , and A. A question mark? However, when Voldemort meet his first downfall in , which Harry brought upon after the Dark Lord's attack on the infant, the record of the prophecy was changed. It was changed by the employees of the Department of Mysteries so that Harry's name was shown.

However, the Death Eaters lay in wait until he had done so and then gave chase through the Department of Mysteries , attempting to take the Prophecy from him. It was eventually smashed in a skirmish during the Battle of the Department of Mysteries taking place in the Death Chamber when it fell from Neville's pocket and Neville accidentally kicked and smashed it.

The destruction of the prophecy infuriated Lord Voldemort, as it symbolised Harry triumphing over him once again. Harry Potter and Albus Dumbledore are the only two people who know the full contents of the prophecy. As the prophecy was made to Dumbledore, he had a memory of Trelawney telling it to him and thus could show it to Harry by means of his Pensieve.

Harry soon realises that this prophecy is the catalyst for everything that ever happened to him. It is the reason he had a scar , the reason he could speak to snakes , the reason he had no parents, and the reason he shares a connection with Voldemort's mind. It was all due to the fact of Voldemort trying to circumvent this prophecy in order to destroy the only one who could defeat him.

Despite being the reason for his past, however, Harry also realised that the prophecy greatly affects his future: the part of it saying " Neither can live while the other survives " means that either he or Voldemort must kill the other in the end. Despite this, Dumbledore makes it clear to him that it is not entirely because of the prophecy that Harry would try to defeat Voldemort, it is because of the type of person Harry is that he would not rest until he had defeated the person who murdered his parents, Cedric Diggory , and countless others.

In fact, the prophecy does not mean he has to do anything, but Voldemort sets store by the prophecy by marking Harry as his equal when he tried to kill him, as tyrants such as Voldemort are always afraid of those they oppress. Though Harry told Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger what the prophecy meant, he never told them its contents word for word. After Harry heard the full prophecy in Dumbledore's Office, he had to live with the knowledge that he would have to kill Voldemort in the end.

Rumours also were let slip to the Daily Prophet about what the battle in the Ministry was centred on, leading to Harry being called "The Chosen One" in the newspapers. Harry survived the Killing Curse because his mother sacrificed her life for him and gave him a protection from Voldemort until he comes of age at The so-called Chosen One either had to destroy Voldemort, or be destroyed by Voldemort.

Along with Dumbledore, Harry unravelled the secret of Voldemort's Horcruxes , objects in which pieces of Voldemort's soul were hidden so as to make him immortal, which were the keys to defeating him once and for all. Only he had the ability to vanquish the Dark Lord [3] and that it was up to him to finish the Horcrux hunt after Albus Dumbledore died and end Voldemort's reign of terror.

Love , the power Harry has that Voldemort cannot comprehend. Dumbledore explained to Harry that by attempting to kill Harry, Voldemort himself singled out the only person who would be able to defeat him, and thus it was a grave error on his part to act as Trelawney said.

Not all prophecies are fulfilled, and so it was because of Voldemort that the prophecy of someone being able to vanquish the Dark Lord came true.

Furthermore, Voldemort handed Harry the necessary weapons for the job. Voldemort also discovered, after the Battle of the Department of Mysteries , that it caused him excruciating agony to try to possess Harry because Harry is full of love.

Voldemort didn't understand this, as in his haste to mutilate his soul to create Horcruxes he never paused to think about the power of an untarnished, whole, and loving soul. Harry realised what Dumbledore said to him about the prophecy is that it his destiny was the difference between being dragged into the arena to face a battle to the death and walking into the arena with your head held high. Knave of spades: a dark young man, possibly troubled, one who dislikes the questioner —" All foretelling the incidents leading to Dumbledore's death and the invasion of Hogwarts in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince.

The cards she shuffled over and over again remained the same. Coming closer all the time. And although Trelawney tried to warn Dumbledore, it was to no avail. Harry is a Horcrux. A living carrier of a sliver of Voldemort's soul. So when Trelawney predicts the specifics of Harry's birth and is corrected by Harry who says he was born in July, is it possible that she really saw into the hidden segment of Voldemort's soul?

A person of "dark hair" and "mean stature" with "tragic losses so young in life" could be the young Tom Riddle , whose mother passed away and father abandoned him, as well as Harry. The only difference? Their birth date. And when was Tom Riddle born? As Trelawney was "right in saying. Professor Remus Lupin, also known as "Moony" by his fellow Mauraders, was a werewolf. Unfortunately for Remus, it was he who would be the victim of the cursed Defense Against the Dark Arts position.

Cursed since Voldemort was rejected the position by Dumbledore all those years ago. And so, is it just dumb luck that Trelawney predicts he won't last at Hogwarts? He seems aware, himself, that his time is short.

She's right either way. Hermione and Trelawney were always at odds. Hermione, a student of books and proven knowledge, didn't believe in the art of divination. And so seeing the class as a waste of her already time turner twisted schedule she decided to leave.

Simple as that. We wonder if Hermione had heard Harry's prediction during his divination exam of a very much alive hippogriff flying away before either knew of their plans to save him, would she be less of a skeptic?

Why did he survive his first year in the chambers beneath Hogwarts as Quirrell threatened to end his life?