Comments on: Professor Trelawney’s Prediction

By: Lyss

Lyss — Fri, 25 Nov 2011 15:21:48 +0000

I have to laugh at 50% being passing. How is that passing when, by definition of 50%, you got just as much wrong as you did right?

By: HentaiTenshi

HentaiTenshi — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 21:13:23 +0000

I completely agree with you Amanda. I wasn’t as bad as Hermione, but I used to feel a constant need to be established as “the smart one” at some point during my classes. It was something I was good at and something that wouldn’t change or be taken away. It wasn’t 24/7 but it was there. It’s why I love Hermione’s character so much especially in the later books as you see how she develops.

By: Amanda

Amanda — Sun, 04 Sep 2011 03:26:43 +0000

I just feel like I have to comment about the quote from JKR about Hermione, because it rings so true to me. I have no trouble at all relating to Hermione and, yes, recognizing myself in her, although not as extreme. In school, I did try and make up for my weaker sides by being good in the school subjects, so I could feel some kind of satisfaction over at least some things I accomplished. It’s something I also see in a lot of girls around me and it really is quite sad.
Just felt like commenting it, since nobody else seems to have brought it up.

By: Chantelle

Chantelle — Sat, 30 Jul 2011 09:31:08 +0000

Casey, I think that just because the pass mark is 50% in Ireland, the UK and many other places, doesn’t necessarily mean that it’s easier than in the US. I think you’ll find that it all correlates, so that the difficulty of getting 50ish% is similar to the difficulty of getting 70ish% in the US.

By: Lewis

Lewis — Thu, 30 Jun 2011 12:22:18 +0000

I just got my first Semester Year 11 English mark back, and was displeased to get a B with 72% (A was 75%). I guess I must have always taken for granted the fact that 50% was a pass for granted.

If we Australians got told we needed 70% to pass…

By: Casey

Casey — Sat, 11 Jun 2011 03:28:31 +0000

I live in New Hampshire, US, and all throughout my life, since elementary school, D’s didn’t exist for me and my classmates. It’s always been 70 – 100% passing range, and anything lower than 70% was a fail. I went to public school up until sophomore year of high school and it hasn’t ever changed. Those I tell this to tend to tell me that means I’ve been well-prepared for college, which I suppose is true. So it always surprises me when I see grades like 50% being a pass. Makes me wish I could have lived in a place like Ireland as a child n_n

I also completely agree with everything Emily Michelle said in her comment. It all makes complete sense to me, and couldn’t have put it better myself =]

By: Jeremy

Jeremy — Mon, 06 Jun 2011 14:09:42 +0000

I wonder why Trelawney thought that she did not make the prediction? It makes me wonder what happens to a Seer when he or she makes a genuine prediction.

By: Ari

Ari — Tue, 24 May 2011 23:00:18 +0000

Roya, thats a good point. But if you’ve been involved in many Harry potter disscusions you’ll know we tend to not go for the simplest solution. Rather we go towards the coolest or most interesting one. Or that’s what I’ve noticed. Lol

By: Roya

Roya — Mon, 02 May 2011 20:14:08 +0000

For those fighting over whether or not the prophecy had to do with Nagini, Crouch, or Petigrew:

Occam’s razor, you guys. The simplest solution is most often the correct one. Since we know that Peter Petigrew abandons his whole I-am-a-filthy-rat-man-in-hiding strategy, uses his own arm to bring Voldemort back to his body, so on and so forth, can we just assume that it was him? Also, it was exactly twelve years, since he went into hiding the day Sirius found out about the Potters and came after him (probably the day after Voldemort’s spell rebounded).

We know everything about Peter and hardly anything about Barty Crouch Jr. or Nagini. The simplest solution is often the correct one. It’s clearly what Rowling was intending.

By: Christa

Christa — Sat, 30 Apr 2011 18:20:58 +0000

I was also always confused about the profession of teaching. Obviously, there is NO ONE in line to be a teacher at Hogwarts. If they have to continue to employ something who had DIED… It’s kind of sad. As an education student myself, I always wonder why no one in the Wizarding World seems to consider the profession of teaching except for the teachers already there. Dumbledore has to go find people to fill a spot. They have no training in the art of teaching at all.