She could be very defensive in the face of those disbelieving in her abilities, attempting to impress them with false predictions of impending danger. She would claim that those unbelievers had "lack of Sight" or that they were simply scared of Seers.
Due to being constantly harassed by the Hogwarts High Inquisitor , Trelawney developed a drinking problem; a number of times Harry detected the smell of old sherry on her, and at one point, she was seen stowing away empty alcohol bottles in the Room of Requirement. This escalated as Umbridge placed her on probation, in which Sybill's stress at being monitored so closely led her to appear more drunk during work hours. Even after being reinstated the following year, Trelawney's alcoholism was milder but continued, as she was storing more sherry bottles in the Room.
She was very sensitive, most notably when Dolores Umbridge placed her on probation and then dismissed her. Trelawney expressed on how she believed that all of the High Inquisitor's questionings and demands were an insult to a self-proclaimed Seer, but her own inability to cope with the pressure led to a spiralling emotional breakdown that Umbridge considered to be an embarrassment to the rest of the school.
Trewlaney's poor control over her emotions led her to behave more unprofessionally when she turned to alcoholism to such an extent that Harry could catch the smell of sherry on her; she was actually holding a bottle of sherry at the time of her dismissal. Sybill was, however, loyal to the school and defended it during the Battle of Hogwarts. Her first true prediction was made in the presence of Albus Dumbledore at the Hog's Head inn.
Dumbledore reported that he had decided not to give Trelawney the job, but changed his mind when he heard the prophecy. Trelawney herself is not aware that she made the prophecy, merely remembering that she came over faint, which she attributed to not having eaten that day. At the time of its prophesying, the identity of the child was not known as he had not been born yet. The time of year the prophecy was made is unknown. Lesson divination with Professor Trelawney. It later became apparent that the prophecy could have applied to either Harry or Neville Longbottom , who was also born at the end of the seventh month on 30 July.
Part of the prediction came to pass on the night of 31 October , , when Voldemort's body was destroyed after Harry survived an attack from him, using the killing curse, Avada Kedavra. The attack left Harry with an ability to speak Parseltongue , a lightning-shaped scar on his forehead, and a mental connection to Voldemort. It was Dumbledore's view that it was Voldemort's choice of Harry as his target from the two possible boys, that caused Harry to have the power to vanquish the Dark Lord.
In other words, the only reason Harry had the power to defeat Voldemort is that Voldemort believed he did. By attacking Harry, Voldemort caused the prophecy to become true. The prophecy as interpreted by Dumbledore to Harry in June read: "Someone Harry or Neville with the power to vanquish Voldemort is coming Harry will be born at the end of July When Harry and the others arrive in the Hall of Prophecy in the Department of Mysteries , Ron found a record of the prophecy that had a tag which read:.
The question mark before the Harry Potter is because at the time it was unclear who the prophecy was written about, but when Voldemort sought to murder Harry, the prophecy record was changed to include his name. This prophecy came to pass when Scabbers ' true identity was revealed and he escaped to help bring Voldemort back to health. Professor Trelawney has made other minor predictions, too, some of which came true, though it may be a coincidence.
Sybill Trelawney - an experienced forecaster, though she does not remember her prophecies. Sybill took great pride in her lineage of the great Seer Cassandra Trelawney , and tend to ride on that fact when trying to gain employment, despite showcasing none of her great-great-grandmother's talent. Sybill married a man by the surname Higglebottom , but her refusal to take his surname caused their marriage to end unexpectedly and rather acrimoniously.
Lavender Brown and Parvati Patil seemed to have an exceptionally close relationship with Sybill Trelawney; they had an unwavering faith in the reliability of Trelawney's predictions, and were often seen comforting her and seeking out her company. The two girls often spent lunch periods in the North Tower with Trelawney, returning to the other Gryffindors with smug looks as though they knew something the others did not.
Both of them even became offended on the Professor's behalf when Hermione made clear her disdain for Trelawney and the subject she taught in When she was temporarily sacked by Dolores Umbridge, Lavender and Parvati brought Trelawney some nice daffodils to cheer her up.
For her part, Trelawney seemed to return their genuine affection for her. For example, she told Parvati that she had the makings of a true Seer, [13] and tried in vain to save Lavender from Fenrir Greyback by dropping a crystal ball on his head during the Battle of Hogwarts. Sadly, Lavender died from her injuries caused by the werewolf. Dolores Umbridge , her enemy. Sybill Trelawney strongly disliked Dolores Umbridge , the Defence Against the Dark Arts professor and later Hogwarts High Inquisitor because of the way the pink nightmare treated her during her insulting inspections of Sybill's Divination classes as well as being asked to predict on command.
It was during Umbridge's reign at Hogwarts when Harry, who did not like Trelawney very much, felt pity for her. Umbridge interfered in Trelawney's lessons and soon put the Divination teacher on probation. After receiving this news, Trelawney sobbed and furiously proclaimed dramatically that she had been insulted by the establishment, those whose eyes were clouded by the Mundane, and did not possess the Inner Eye, and that it was, alas, the fate of all Seers to be feared by society and persecuted.
Trelawney, very distressed, then began to drink copious amounts of cooking sherry. She became somewhat brisk in her lessons, looking very bedraggled and harassed much of the time, and would sob uncontrollably while teaching. Umbridge believed that Trelawney was an old fraud and, true to her duties of High Inquisitor to weed out any unsatisfactory teachers, eventually sacked her in a rather unceremonious — and even cruel — way.
When Dumbledore defended Trelawney and let her stay at Hogwarts, Umbridge was furious with Dumbledore because he had already picked out a replacement teacher, Firenze. Firenze was a centaur , a creature Umbridge was prejudiced against because of her hatred of "half-breeds". Umbridge left Hogwarts in after the Skirmish in the Forbidden Forest at the end of the school year, and Trelawney resumed teaching Divination along with Firenze, who could not go back to his herd in the Forest as they had banished him for working with humans.
Trelawney viewed this as a great insult. Minerva McGonagall , her fellow teaching colleague. McGonagall had no use for Trelawney's subject, Divination , politely describing it as an 'imprecise' branch of magic. She also, like many others, believed that Trelawney was a fraud. Despite her distaste for Trelawney and her teachings, the professors would grow to understand one another through their shared hatred of Dolores Umbridge during the woman's tenure as the Defence Against the Dark Arts Professor.
Albus Dumbledore , her employer. Upon their first meeting, Albus Dumbledore initially believed that she did not have the gifts of second sight, but when he heard her prophecy about Harry Potter and Voldemort , he hired her in order to protect her from the Dark Lord and his Death Eaters. Although Dumbledore was sceptical of Divination, he was fond of Trelawney. He did concede that she made two real prophecies, leading him to lightly joke that he should give her a pay rise.
In , Trelawney was angry with Dumbledore, as he allowed Firenze to continue teaching Divination alongside her. This made Trelawney think that Dumbledore disliked and insulted her, and she asked him several times to fire her. During , Trelawney predicted Dumbledore's death at the Astronomy Tower several times without realising it. Professor Firenze , her co-Divination professor, whom she disliked. After Professor Trelawney was dismissed, Dumbledore hired the centaur Firenze to replace the vacant spot of Divination teacher.
After Umbridge left Hogwarts and Trelawney was reinstated, Dumbledore refused to fire Firenze, as his herd would not take him back. This greatly angered Trelawney. Co-teaching with him, she called him names, such as "the Nag," and "Dobbin", among others. She believed that the headmaster preferred Firenze to herself.
All of Hermione's logic and good sense Lavender was not dreading the death of the rabbit, which was very young; the rabbit did not die on the sixteenth, but the previous day are lost: Lavender wants to believe her unhappiness was foretold. 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. I created detailed histories for many of the Hogwarts staff such as Albus Dumbledore, Minerva McGonagall and Rubeus Hagrid , some of which were used in the books, and some of which were not.
It is in some ways fitting that I only ever had a vague idea of what had happened to the Divination teacher before she washed up at Hogwarts. I imagine that Sybill's pre-Hogwarts existence consisted of drifting through the wizarding world, trying to trade on her ancestry to secure employment, but scorning any that did not offer what she feels is the status due to a Seer. She tells the class that she does not often enter the hustle and bustle of the main school, as it clouds her Inner Eye.
As she introduces the course, she makes several predictions about students, which leave the class uneasy. She starts the students off reading the tea leaves, encouraging them to broaden their minds in order to see past the mundane. As Harry and Ron attempt to read their leaves, Trelawney snatches up Harry's teacup, promptly dismissing all of Ron's predictions. She predicts danger and an attack in Harry's future, before screaming and sinking into a vacant armchair before announcing that she has seen the Grim in Harry's tea leaves: the omen of death.
Professor Trelawney enters the Great Hall as Christmas lunch is beginning. Trelawney sees the students separately for their Divination exam. 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. Professor Trelawney gives Harry and Ron full marks for their Divination homework.
During the Divination lesson, Professor Trelawney tells the students that she sees death gazing back at her from her crystal ball.
She stares pointedly at Harry as she speaks and thinks that he and Ron should act less frivolously during her class given this information. Professor Trelawney stands in the middle of the Entrance Hall with her wand in one hand and an empty sherry bottle in the other. She looks utterly mad; her hair is sticking up on end, her glasses are lopsided, and her shawls and scarves trail from her shoulders.
Trelawney tells Professor Umbridge that she refuses to accept her dismissal; she has been at Hogwarts for sixteen years, and the castle is her home. Parents Home Homeschool College Resources.
Study Guide. Previous Next. Professor Dumbledore explains that he was interviewing Trelawney for a job at the Hog's Head Inn fifteen years ago when she suddenly spoke in an unfamiliar, deep voice: The one with the power to vanquish the Dark Lord approaches What's Up With the Ending?
Tired of ads? Join today and never see them again. Helping her up, he discovers that she had been using the Room of Requirement as a place to hide her sherry; this time, though, she had heard someone inside "whooping". When she had demanded to know who was there, everything had gone dark, and she had been rudely thrust back out into the corridor.
Harry believes that the evident joy in the unknown person's voice indicated that Draco Malfoy had completed whatever it was that he was doing in the Room of Requirement, and he asks Trelawney to accompany him to Dumbledore's office, to tell Dumbledore what she had heard. On the way, she starts talking about the day she was hired. Harry has already heard the story from Dumbledore, and is somewhat interested to hear Trelawney's version, but when Trelawney mentions that the eavesdropper had been Severus Snape , Harry leaves her standing in the corridor and runs off to confront Dumbledore with this information.
With Harry not attending Hogwarts, we see very little of Trelawney until the final battle. Trelawney helps her fellow professors and students during the battle that ensues at Hogwarts when Lord Voldemort and other Death Eaters attack it by throwing crystal balls down from upper landings of the staircase. A thrown crystal ball knocks out Fenrir Greyback before he can resume an attack on Lavender Brown. Trelawney actually does have the gift of Sight to a limited extent.
Twice, over the course of some eighteen years, she has made prophecies: one has come true, and the other had partially become true at the start of the series, and is completed by the end. She does have some ability to mislead and misdirect; Parvati Patil and Lavender Brown hang on her every word.
She pretends to be a better seer than she is; knowing that she is supposed to have the Sight, because of her ancestor, she plays that up for all she is worth, using the same tricks Muggle fortune-tellers use. She annoys some people but she cannot be relieved of her residence at the castle because of her real prophecies.
She is very insecure, trying to preserve her position as superior to Firenze after his hiring by bad-mouthing him and his techniques. When she is threatened with dismissal, and when Firenze is taking half the Divination classes, she also tends to retreat into alcohol; in the latter half of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix , and throughout Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince , we never meet Sybill without smelling sherry.
Her relationships with students are not much better: she irritates Harry, Hermione, and Ron, but manages to gather a smattering of followers including Parvati Patil and Lavender Brown. She also holds resentment towards Firenze when he is appointed as a second Divination teacher.
Overall, Trelawney likes to make big impressions, most probably because of her insecure nature. She enjoys predicting the deaths of students, one in each year, though none have died yet. She constantly predicts a gruesome death for Harry, possibly wanting the grand effect of having such a famous person die and predict it correctly. Ironically, Trelawney's two wildest predictions turned out to be the only ones that were true.
These two predictions were so wild that "even [Trelawney] wouldn't say something as far-fetched as that ", according to Trelawney.
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