Harry as Seer?

Scott insanus_scottus at yahoo.co.uk
Tue May 8 19:46:37 UTC 2001


No: HPFGUIDX 18387

Steve wrote:
"I think that JKR intends for Harry to be a Seer, and that he's 
discovering it slowly and gradually. His comments about the 
hippogriff in his divination exam were throw away phrases, sure, but 
I think they indicate that he does possess some ability to see the 
future but doesn't recognize it as such. He sees more than he 
realizes that he sees, in other words. He forgets his dreams; he 
looks so hard at the crystal that he doesn't recognize the things 
that he does see for what they are. "

*cough* *cough*
--I'm sick today, couldn't go to school, and very upset about it. (ha 
ha all we're doing is revising for exams...sigh). Anyways-

Steve's post has put this into my head and I've got to share and see 
what everyone else thinks...

If Harry is a seer and not Ron, as some have proposed, then is it 
possible that Harry's "special-ness" comes from that ablility? 
Instead of it being prophesised that Harry will defeat Voldemort 
could it be that he, and he alone, will be able to know HOW to defeat 
V? Maybe it was prophesised that Harry would be able to tell who 
could defeat Voldemort or something similar? 

Harry might not be directly important in the ultimate defeat of V, 
but that defeat might be impossible without him. Does this make 
sense? This really opens up a plethora of possiblities, and even 
though there's not much canonical evidence for it...well what do you 
think?

Scott
*cough* *cough*





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