[HPforGrownups] Re: Harry Potter Character Sketch

[Amanda Lewanski]

No: HPFGUIDX 17295

Penny & Bryce Linsenmayer wrote:

> No .... I think there's something *special* about Harry, something
> that was prophesied and something Voldy didn't count on.

Then someone other than Trelawney must have prophesied it. The *only*
way that a true prophecy is revealed as true prophecy is when the event
*happens.* Since Trelawney's made two true predictions, the first one
has come true, or we wouldn't know about it.

Soooo, as I said someplace else, why in the world would anyone like
Voldemort listen to Trelawney's first true prediction and act on it as a
warning, when she'd never been a true seer before? He doesn't seem the
sort to put much stock in tea leaves and incense.

Thus, the first prediction could have been about baby Harry bringing
Voldemort low, but unless it came from multiple sources, I doubt it was
the reason Voldemort went Harry-hunting. I'm now betting it was about
the deaths of the Potters, or something else significant that has
occurred. Even something else that we have not heard of yet. Joanne
Rowling, packer and exporter of fine red herrings.

> I do agree that he didn't do anything terribly extraordinary
> magic-wise to survive the final encounters in SS & CoS.  But, by PoA,
> we are seeing some more powerful things out of Harry.  IMO, this will
> only increase as he matures.

The hat said he had ability, in so many words. And I don't buy that it's
all a Voldemort graft. I still think "there's something about Harry."

--Amanda


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