April 14 1986: I had a meeting with a new teacher today. Sybill Trelawney, great-great-granddaughter of a famous seer. I had to walk to the Hog's Head Inn in the pouring rain. The meeting was dull, she seemed not to have the sight at all. I politely got up to leave, but when I turned around, she went into a trance and began to say:
"The one with the power to vanquish the Dark Lord approaches....Born to those who have thrice defied him, born as the seventh month dies.....And the Dark Lord will mark him as his equal, but he will have a power the Dark Lord knows not...And either must die at the hands of the other for neither can live while the other survives......The one with the power to vanquish the Dark Lord will be born as the seventh month dies....." I will need to put a lot of thought into this riddle, the consequences of our actions are always so complicated, so diverse, that predicting the future is very difficult business indeed.
"The one with the power to vanquish the Dark Lord approaches....Born to those who have thrice defied him, born as the seventh month dies.....And the Dark Lord will mark him as his equal, but he will have a power the Dark Lord knows not...And either must die at the hands of the other for neither can live while the other survives......The one with the power to vanquish the Dark Lord will be born as the seventh month dies....." I will need to put a lot of thought into this riddle, the consequences of our actions are always so complicated, so diverse, that predicting the future is very difficult business indeed.