“I have seen that poor Professor Lupin will not be with us for very long. She tells the class that she does not often enter the hustle and bustle of the main school, as it clouds her Inner Eye. She is a thin lady, usually draped in a shawl, with very large glasses. She is a thin lady, usually draped in a shawl, with very large glasses. She unfortunately overhears Ron's crude joke to Lavender, which is possibly why she gives the students such a huge amout of homework at the end of the lesson. ", "Trelawney sees the students separately for their Divination exam. There is a pathos about Professor Trelawney, infuriating though I would find her in real life, and I think that Minerva sensed her underlying feeling of inadequacy. We know that Dumbledore worked hard to keep Trelawney safe from Voldemort so that Voldemort would not have a chance to obtain information about the prophecy from her. Sybill is the great-great granddaughter of a genuine Seer, Cassandra Trelawney. When Professor Dumbledore arrives in the Entrance Hall, Trelawney insists she will leave and seek her fortune elsewhere, but he requests that she remain. By the law of averages, Professor Trelawney's rapid fire predictions sometimes hit the mark, but most of the time she is full of hot air and self-importance. She goes rigid, her eyes lose their focus, and her mouth sags. Parvati Patil and Lavender Brown consider Professor Trelawney to be the best teacher and both of them believe every word she says. Harry Potter fan theory shows how Professor Trelawney may have predicted Dumbledore’s death. An Gof is recorded as saying, on the way to his death, that he would have a name perpetual and a fame permanent and immortal. As she introduces the course, she makes several predictions about students, which leave the class uneasy. We know that Dumbledore worked hard to keep Trelawney safe from Voldemort so that Voldemort would not have a chance to obtain information about the prophecy from her. She stares pointedly at Harry as she speaks and thinks that he and Ron should act less frivolously during her class given this information. She actually saw- in the third year, when she said that Harry was born in mid-December- the part of Tom Riddle's soul that was INSIDE Harry. Trelawney sees the students separately for their Divination exam. Cookies help us deliver our Services. Snape presumably protected her as Headmaster. Half-believing in her own fibs about her talent (for she is at least ninety per cent fraud), Sybill has cultivated a dramatic manner and enjoys impressing her more gullible students with predictions of doom and disaster. She DID inherit her distant grandmother's ability to predict. When she finishes speaking, Trelawney doesn't remember her prediction, and is startled when Harry tells her what she said, refusing to believe that she would predict something so far-fetched. Discovered in chapter 6, Talons and Tea Leaves, Discovered in chapter 16, Professor Trelawney's Prediction, Discovered in chapter 15, Beauxbatons and Durmstrang, Discovered in chapter 21, The House-Elf Liberation Front, Discovered in chapter 26, Seen and Unforseen, Discovered in chapter 15, The Unbreakable Vow, Discovered in Book 3, Chapter 11, The Firebolt, Discovered in Book 3, Chapter 16, Professor Trelawney's Prediction, Discovered in Book 4, Chapter 13, Mad-Eye Moody, Discovered in Book 4, Chapter 15, Beauxbatons and Durmstrang. Part of this involved keeping her at Hogwarts. Right here. Sybill struggled to find work based on her ancestry because she believed her employers did not treat her right as a true Seer. She reads out a large portion of their predictions, and commends them for their unflinching acceptance of the horrors in store for them. She is very concerned about which of them rose first, and is offended when no one else seems to take her fears seriously. As Harry leaves, Trelawney starts to speak in a loud, harsh voice unlike her own. (1997 … Trelawney tells Harry that the Dark Lord will rise again, and that the servant who will help him will set out to rejoin his master before midnight that night. Harry and Ron laughed for hours The next time they had Divination, Professor Trelawney pulled Harry and Ron aside. She starts the students off reading the tea leaves, encouraging them to broaden their minds in order to see past the mundane. He heads over and sees that it is Professor Trelawney, who was booted from the Room of Requirement, and hears that Draco was in there, and happy about something. I think she was probably okay in the end. Professor Sybill Trelawney is the Divination teacher at Hogwarts. Though Harry doesn't take most of Trelawney's predictions seriously (mostly because Trelawney predicts Harry's death on a weekly basis), he begins to suspect that there's more to her than he initially thought when her prediction from his last school year comes true: Voldemort returns after his servant, Wormtail, breaks free. More posts from the harrypotter community. ", "At the beginning of her Divination lesson, Trelawney tells Harry that he has difficult times ahead; that the thing he dreads will come to pass sooner than he thinks. She is also responsible for commissioning the Prophecy that predicted the downfall of Voldemort at the hands of Harry Potter. She behaves almost normally for the rest of the meal, up to the point when Harry and Ron get up from the table. She is initially excited when Harry mentions seeing a Hippogriff in the Orb, but is disappointed that it doesn't appear to be dead. However, Gryffindor students Parvati Patil and Lavender Brown are very fond of and impressed by her. [coughs] Professor Trelawney: Oh, I'm sorry, dear. My American editor wanted me to use 'Sibyl', but I preferred my version, because while it keeps the reference to the august clairvoyants of old, it is really no more than a variant the unfashionable female name 'Sybil'. Seems like a very Snape-y thing to do, saying something that makes him look like a callus dick but is actually him being protective. She is very thin and is always draped in a finely-woven, shiny shawl. The rest of the students don't take her seriously. Press question mark to learn the rest of the keyboard shortcuts. Conscious of her low status on the staff, who are almost all more talented than she is, Sybill spends most of her time apart from her colleagues, up in her stuffy and overcrowded tower office. Professor Trelawney was the Divination teacher at Hogwarts. She unfortunately overhears Ron's crude joke to Lavender, which is possibly why she gives the students such a huge amout of homework at the end of the lesson. Trelawney gives the students complicated circular charts to work on during the lesson. When Dumbledore conjures her a chair, she is very reluctant to sit down, reminding them of the old superstition: when thirteen dine together, the first to rise will be the first to die. Although she is eventually persuaded to sit, she does so hesitantly, as though expecting a thunderbolt to hit the table. She is very concerned about which of them rose first, and is offended when no one else seems to take her fears seriously. The death of Albus Dumbledore at the hands of Severus Snape (seriously, it’s not a spoiler anymore) is still a deep physical wound on our souls, and this new revelation has only ripped it open again. There is a pathos about Professor Trelawney, infuriating though I would find her in real life, and I think that Minerva sensed her underlying feeling of inadequacy. Harry Potter: 10 Times Sybill Trelawney Should Have Been Fired (Or Imprisoned In Azkaban) Professor Sybill Trelawney is one of Harry Potter's strangest teachers, and here are ten reasons why she should have been fired a long time ago. Eventually, Sybill started to make false predictions and in 1980, she … Or is Trelawney even going so far as to predict the death of the beloved teacher in the Battle of Hogwarts? As Harry and Ron attempt to read their leaves, Trelawney snatches up Harry's teacup, promptly dismissing all of Ron's predictions. The friends generally believe Professor Trelawney is a fraud. Pottermore Wiki is a FANDOM Games Community. She is angry that, now she has been reinstated as a teacher, Dumbledore chose to keep Firenze on, and that they now share classes. Professor Trelawney was described as being a thin woman, usually draped in gauzy shawls, and cloaks and bangles all covered with shining sequins and glittering strings of beads.She had thick glasses, which hugely magnified her eyes and caused them to appear about ten times their normal size. When she finishes speaking, Trelawney doesn't remember her prediction, and is startled when Harry tells her what she said, refusing to believe that she would predict something so far-fetched. He has only ever wanted power. Unsurprisingly, perhaps, she has developed an over-reliance on alcohol. Professor Sybil Trelawney : There, she's gone. OK, so we all know that Sybil Trelawney was a little bit crazy. Sybill Trelawney is the Deviations Professor at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry and a character in Harry Potter. She goes rigid, her eyes lose their focus, and her mouth sags. 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