Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

Chapter Sixteen:
Professor Trelawney's Prediction

Synopsis by William Silvester
Notes and links by Michele L. Worley

US hardcover edition: pages 314-331
UK paperback edition: pages339 - 357
Timeframe: xx May - 6 June 1994 [Y14]

In which OWLs and NEWTs are coming up and everyone is studying, exam week arrives, Buckbeak's appeal is scheduled, Professor Trelawney unknowingly predicts the return of the Dark Lord, HRH use the invisibility cloak to visit Hagrid, try to comfort him, Hermione finds Scabbers in a milk jug, men come to execute Buckbeak, HRH go out the back door under the cloak and Scabbers goes berserk.

Interesting facts and notes about the text of this chapter:

...still looking everywhere for her Arithmancy book.

Characters introduced in this chapter:

• Macnair, Walden

• (name unknown) aging wizard from the Committee for the Disposal of Dangerous Creatures

Characters returning in this chapter:

• Brown, Lavender

• Buckbeak (as Beaky)

• Fudge, Cornelius

• Granger, Hermione

• Hagrid, Rubeus

• Hedwig

• Longbottom, Neville

• Lupin, Remus

• Malfoy, Draco

• Patil, Parvati

• Pettigrew, Peter (as Scabbers)

• Potter, Harry

• Snape, Severus

• Trelawney, Professor

• Weasley, Fred

• Weasley, George

• Weasley, Percy

• Weasley, Ron

Characters mentioned in this chapter:

• Dumbledore, Albus

• Flitwick, Filius

• Fortescue, Florean

• Malfoy, Lucius

• McGonagall, Minerva

• Weasley, Arthur

Settings and locations introduced or returning in this chapter:

• Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry

  • Astronomy Tower

  • Charms classroom

  • Entrance Hall

  • Great Hall

  • greenhouses

  • grounds

  • Gryffindor Tower common room

  • Hagrid's cabin

  • History of Magic classroom

  • North Tower

  • Potions classroom (presumably where practical exam was given)

Settings and locations mentioned in this chapter:

• Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry

  • corridor, third-floor, with the statue of the one-eyed witch

  • corridor, seventh-floor, where Fat Lady's portrait hangs

  • hospital wing

  • lake, the

  • Transfiguration classroom

  • quiet room where Ron waited for the Cheering Charm to wear off

Exceptional character moments:

• none yet

Spells and Potions:

• Cheering Charms

• Confusing Concoction

Links and Resources:

• Bestiary, the

  • boggart

  • Flobberworm

  • Grindylow

  • Hinkypunk

  • Hippogriff

  • Red Cap

  • squid, giant

  • troll

• classes

  • Ancient Runes

  • Arithmancy

  • Astronomy

  • Care of Magical Creatures

  • Charms

  • Defence Against the Dark Arts

  • Divination

  • Herbology

  • History of Magic

  • Muggle Studies

  • Potions

  • Transfiguration

• games

  • Gobstones

  • Quidditch Cup

• items and devices, magical

  • books

    • Numerology and Grammatica

    • Unfogging the Future

  • crystal ball

  • invisibility cloak

• Ministry of Magic

  • Department for the Regulation and Control of Magical Creatures, Committee for the Disposal of Dangerous Creatures

• Nastily Exhausting Wizarding Tests (N.E.W.T.s)

• Ordinary Wizarding Levels (O.W.L.s)

Memorable lines:

• 'Has either of you seen my copy of Numerology and Grammatica?'
  'Oh, yeah, I borrowed it for a bit of bedtime reading,' said Ron, but very quietly.

• Hagrid was not crying, nor did he throw himself upon their necks. He looked like a man who did not know where he was or what to do. This helplessness was worse to watch than tears.

Strictly British:

• cupboard

• queue

• revision

• sitting (an exam)

Timelines/Calendar:

This chapter begins just after the previous previous chapter, briefly sketching the events of the end of May, before arriving at the main scenes that take place on the last day of final exams, the day of Buckbeak's appeal. Since the decree of execution gives the date, we know that the chapter ends on the sixth of June.

• The End of PA

• The End of PA: Chart Showing the Events of the Evening of June 6