Professor Sybill Patricia Trelawney is a supporting character in the Harry Potter series. She is an eccentric witch working as a Divination professor at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. She is responsible for commissioning the Prophecy that predicted the downfall of Lord Voldemort at the hands of Harry Potter.
She was portrayed by Emma Thompson.
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Professor Trelawney was a thin woman, usually draped in gauzy shawls, and cloaks and bangles all covered with shining sequins and glittering strings of beads. She wore thick glasses, which hugely magnified her eyes and caused them to appear about ten times their normal size.
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Trelawney reading Hermione Granger's palm.
Trivia[]
- The name "Sibyl" is from the Latin sibylla, seer.
- The name "Trelawney" comes from the Cornish phrase tre-lonow, homestead of groves, or tre-launow, farm in clearing.
- J.K. Rowling hinted that the portrayal of Trelawney (a mystic and fortune-teller, perhaps the kind of "magic" that children are most likely to come across) as something of an ineffectual old fraud may be related to this.
