Professor Sybill Trelawney is a character in the Harry Potter book series. She is a witch and seer who teaches Divination at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.
Biography[]
Early life[]
Teaching[]
Sybill rarely left her tower because she found it clouded her Inner Eye.[1]
Harry Potter started learning Divination in his third year. At the start of his first lesson, she told the class it was nice to finally see everybody in the physical world. She informed her students that she could only take them so far because she can't teach advanced divination if they don't possess the Sight.[1] She then predicted things for her students, including Neville dropping a teacup during their lesson. She was accurate, because he did drop one. She had her students interpret tea leaves. She heard Harry and Ron struggling to identify Harry's signs. She looked into the cup and was shocked because she thought she saw the Grim. She told Harry what it was and that he would die soon but Hermione doubted Trelawney's interpretation. She told Hermione she had very little aura and perception and ended their lesson.[1]
Sybill's gave a warning to Lavender Brown to their lesson that the thing she was dreading would happen. It was accurate, because her pet rabbit was killed by a fox. However, Hermione couldn't understand why she would consciously dread her young rabbit dying and told her it didn't even happen on the day Trelawney told her it would (Lavender was just informed that day). Lavender and Parvati Patil admired Trelawney because of what they perceived to be a successful prediction and went to her classroom at lunch to learn.[2]
Harry began to get annoyed at how Trelawney's eyes filled with tears when looking at him every lesson, because she still thought he would die soon.[2] During the holidays, Trelawney preferred to stay in her classroom and have her lunch on her own. But that year, she was crystal-gazing and saw herself leaving her luncheon and joining her colleagues and students in the Great Hall. She glided in wearing a green, glittery dress and Professor Dumbledore found her a chair. Before she was seated, she noticed that if she joined their table, thirteen people would be dining. She was worried because of a superstition that the first to get up would be the first to die, but Dumbledore told her it would be fine. Trelawney soon noticed that Professor Lupin was absent and asked why. Professor McGonagall was very critical of Trelawney, and thought Trelawney should have known through the Sight. She told her that she did know, but doesn't parade having an Inner Eye.[3]
Trelawney told her that she has seen how Lupin will be leaving their school soon, and he was aware of that because when she wanted to do a crystal-gazing, he run away. Two hours later when Harry and Ron stood up first to leave, Trelawney was frantic and asked who stood up first, because she thought that person would die first. Professor McGonagall had a snarky comment about it, leaving Trelawney looking affronted.[3]
1994 - 1995[]
1995 - 1996[]
1996 - 1997[]
Second Wizarding War[]
Predictions[]
| Predictions | Happened? |
|---|---|
| Neville shouldn't be sure Augusta was in good health. [1] | Unknown |
| Parvati should beware of a red-haired man.[1] | Unknown; potentially about Ron's behaviour at the Yule Ball. |
| The thing Lavender is dreading would happen during 16 October.[1] | Yes, she found out that her pet rabbit Binky was killed.[2] |
| A bout of flu will hinder their class in February.[1] | Unknown |
| A student will leave forever at Easter.[1] | Yes, Hermione Granger gave up studying Divination.[4] |
| Neville will break a pink teacup.[1] | Yes, he dropped it during their lesson.[1] |
| Neville will be late to their second lesson.[1] | Unknown |
| Professor Lupin won't stay at the school for very long.[3] | Yes, he leaves at the end of the year.[5] |
| The third-years will be tested about the Orb in June for their examination.[4] | Technically yes, but Trelawney decides what it will be about anyway.[4] |
Prophecies[]
| Prophecy | Happened? |
|---|---|
| That a servant who has been chained up for twelve years would escape at midnight and find the Dark Lord, helping him regain power greater than ever before.[6] | Yes, Peter Pettigrew had spent twelve years being an Animagus and escaped again when caught that night. He found the Dark Lord that summer and about a year later, he gained power again. |
Appearance[]
Sybill is very thin and has a spindly neck. She wears magnified glasses which cause her eyes to look large, she wears chains and beads around her neck, rings and bangles on her hands and wrists and long earrings.[1]
Notes and sources[]
- ↑ 1.00 1.01 1.02 1.03 1.04 1.05 1.06 1.07 1.08 1.09 1.10 1.11 Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Chapter 6
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Chapter 8
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Chapter 11
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Chapter 15
- ↑ Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Chapter 22
- ↑ Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Chapter 16