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Cassandra2.0001_Rowling

OGCMA s.v. "Cassandra"
Classical Sources:
Ovid Met. 1.621-37
Aesch. PB 566

Rowling, J.K. (Character Sybil Trelawney featured in) Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. 1999: Bloomsbury.

Also featured in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2000), Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2003), Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2005), and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (2007), as well as the film series of the same name.

According to Rowling via Pottermore.com, "Professor Sybil Trelawney is the Divination professor at Hogwarts. She is a thin lady, usually draped in a shawl, with very large glasses." She is considered by the majority of the students and staff to be a fraud, but in book 3 it is revealed that she has made two real prophesies, both in reference to the rise and fall of Lord Voldemort.

In book 6, it's revealed that Professor Trelawney is the great-granddaughter of famous seer Cassandra Vablatsky.

Image via Pottermore.com

Slide by CB

OGCMA slides are designed by Roger T. Macfarlane for use in Classical Civilization 241 courses at Brigham Young University.
The present resource contains information assembled for The Oxford Guide to Classical Mythology in the Arts, 1300 - 1990's, edited by J. Davidson Reid (Oxford 1994), and it is used with express permission from Oxford University press.
Address concerns or inquiries to macfarlane@byu.edu.