Guest Post by Andrew, ENTJ

Harry Potter, J. K. Rowling

Dominant Introverted Feeling (Fi): Professor Trelawney has a high and highly distorted opinion of herself. She sees and presents herself as a great seer who speaks prophetic words on a daily basis when in reality, she can’t really predict anything correctly while in a conscious state. From the beginning of her lessons, she makes it clear that she disdains most things that can be learned from books. Instead, Professor Trelawney holds her own opinions on her subject as sacrosanct. She marks her students up for agreeing with her, and when she is put on probation, she takes it so badly that she can barely function in her classroom.

Auxiliary Extroverted Intuition (Ne): Professor Trelawney fills her classroom with things that reflect her eccentricities, rather than the conventional things that would go in a classroom. Her teaching activities include reading tea leaves and palmistry, both of which require a strong imagination and uses cold reading techniques to impress her classes. Professor Trelawney generally speaks in a vague manner, so that her predictions could potentially have multiple meanings (this serves to bolster her credibility among her students).

Tertiary Introverted Sensing (Si): Professor Trelawney uses her lineage (one of her ancestors was a respected seer) to boost her own reputation in fortune-telling. Although she makes many random predictions constantly, there are some predictions that she makes regularly (foretelling the death of one of her students at the beginning of every school year). Notwithstanding her generally liberal attitude toward her students, she can become strict when, for example, someone makes inappropriate comments in her class.

Inferior Extroverted Thinking (Te): Professor Trelawney doesn’t want to be “tainted” by anything mundane in the world…which includes just about anything to do with facts and objectivity. She’s not really interested in doing anything useful for anyone, except predicting what horrible and fanciful things will supposedly happen to them.