The Centaur Leigh Professor Trelawney sees an omen

Professor Trelawney sees an omen of death in Harry's tea leaves

First published in 1956

do-gooders and tourists

They committed crimes or treason

he ran from Newcastle to South Shields

The Centaur Leigh Professor Trelawney sees an omenThe Centaur is a modern retelling of the legend of Chiron, the noblest and wisest of the centaurs, who, painfully wounded yet unable to die, gave up his immortality on behalf of Prometheus. In the retelling, Olympus becomes small town Olinger High School; Chiron is George Caldwell, a science teacher there; and Prometheus is Caldwells fifteen year old son, Peter. Brilliantly conflating the authors remembered past with tales from Greek mythology, John