Author Note: I'm not trying particularly hard to put them in canon. Sorry.
Interview with the Famous Seer Sybil Trelawney
October 31 1993
Forge: By now I'd managed to program the book to record our actions too. Makes it better imaging for you!
Gred: Hi old Trel.
Prof. T: (sound of jumping) W-what are you doing here?
Forge: (sounding hurt) You mean you don't love us?
Prof T: No my dears, of course not, any student of mine wishing to seek counsel is welcome. I was just wondering why you are not at the Halloween feast.
Gred: (shrugs) Not enough action down there.
Forge: (suspiciously) Wait a minute, shouldn't you know that we're coming up? You are after all a seer.
Prof. T: I-I—
Gred: Oh let the poor woman go. Prof. T, do you mind if we interview you?
Prof. T: (haughtily) The reason I let you think that I did not know you were coming up was that, my dears—
Forge: The reason was that my deers? What deers?
Prof T.: (snappingly) Be quiet.
Gred: (under breath) someone's grumpy.
Prof. T: A seer never gives herself away too much or people might be intimidated or scared by her.
Gred: (under breath again) They already are.
Forge: Intimidated and scared are the same thing.
Prof T: (Brooklyn accent) Whatever.
Gred: Gee Trel, that really doesn't sound like you. Would you like me to fetch Madam Pomphrey?
Prof. T: (barkingly) I'm fine!
Gred: (whimsically)If you say so..
Prof. T: And don't call me Trel!
Gred: Trel are you from Brooklyn?
Prof. T: (voice slightly higher) No, what makes you think that?
Gred: Your accent.
Prof. T: That, my darling is from the island Bere, an Island around Ireland.
Gred:Lovely!
Forge: Okay, okay, let's get on to the interview.
Prof. T: What interview?
Forge: (surprised) Why darling, as you're a seer I though you would know.
Prof. T: Humph.
Forge: Now, our first question is—
Gred: What will our first question be?
Prof. T: Look boys, I don't have all day.
Forge: But that's our question!
Prof. T: What's your question?
Both: (synchronized) What will our first question be?
Prof. T: (exasperatedly) How the hell am I supposed to know?!
Gred: Tsk tsk, Trelawney said a naughty word. She belongs in the naughty chair... don't you think, Forge?
Forge: (brushes Gred aside) Not now, this is important, this is work. Trelawney, you're a seer, you can predict anything, now, what will our first question be? Use your seer powers.
(silence)
Gred: (loud whisper) Is she finished yet?
Prof. T: (dreamily) patience my dear boy, patience. The sight does not come quickly but—Ah! I now know what you're first question will be!
Forge: Well????
Prof. T: When did my visions first start coming to me?
Both: WRONG!
Forge: I'm sorry but the correct answer is—
Both: What will our first question be?
Prof. T: (sounding slightly hysterical) Oh, honestly!
Forge: But you guessed the second question correctly. Now answer!
Prof. T: My visions first started coming—
(sound of snickering)
Gred: Coming?
Prof. T: (haughtily) You are two VERY immature boys, now let me finish!—Started coming to me
(sound of snickering again)
OH SHUT UP!
--when I was about five years old.
Gred: (coming up for air) Lovely.
Forge: Two down, three to go!
Prof. T: (sigh) Well let's just hurry up and get this over with.
Gred: Oooh.... Somebody's into quickies.
Prof. T: You two...
Both: Us two...
Prof. T: God knows how you're mother survives.
Forge: I know. Really Gred, how does Mum survive us?
Gred: (sympathetically) The poor woman.
Forge: Anyway, onward to victory! Here's the third question. What was your favorite meal as a child?
Prof. T: Pickles.
Gred: Pickles?
Prof. T: Yes, every Friday after noon when my mother went shopping at the market she would give me a nickel. You see, at the market you could get a pickle for a tiny nickel. MMmmm... those pickles were deelishious. Gus's Pickles they were called.
Gred: They use nickels in Bere Island?
Forge: I thought Gus's Pickles were in New York.
Prof. T: Yes, well... I-I-I, you see, well, um... I-I I had—
Gred: You know luv, I just love the way you're being so open with us. So warm and cozy and so...
Fred: Different.
Gred: I can't wait to tell the whole school that you're really not a fre—
Forge :freakishly aloof seer but a warm fuzzy, if not as mysterious as we thought, person.
Prof. T: (panicked) No, nobody must ever know about this interview! No one!
Gred: (innocently) Why not?
Forge: Oh c'mon Trelawney people will like you better.
Prof. T: You tell and I'll do something drastic.
Gred: (eagerly) Like what?
(sound of rummaging)
Forge: Careful Gred, she's got her wand.
Gred: Oh no, she's got her wand.
Forge: You can never trust a witch with a wand. God knows where she'll put it.
Prof. T: (missing the sarcasm) Damn bloody right. Obliviate!
Gred: Oh uh, hello Trelawney.
Forge: (confused) What are we doing here?
Prof. T: You came up to ask me a question about the homework.
Forge: But we don't take Divination.
Prof. T: Just go to the feast!
Forge: (bows) As you command, my lady.
(exuent)
Gred: So we don't really remember that interview.
Forge: Except for the end.
Gred: Lucky for us this good old book recorded everything.
Forge: Were we surprised when we found this interview.
Gred: We quickly ran to Madam Pomphrey to check out our memories.
Forge: She quickly reassured us that if permanent damage had been done people would have noticed.
Gred: Probably the only thing erased from our mind was the interview.
Both: Thank God!
P.S She's clearly from Brooklyn.
