[HPforGrownups] Re: Average Harry?

[Ebony Elizabeth Thomas]

No: HPFGUIDX 18870

Jenny wrote:

Me--
> > This reminds me of the Matrix.  (Then again, so much does.)  The
>Oracle told
> > Neo that he was not the One.  Later events seemed to prove the
>Oracle wrong.
> >   Yet as another character told Neo, "She told you what you needed
>to hear."
> >   Prophets can be interesting folks.
>

Jenny--
>I'm not trying to be nitpicky, but the Oracle never said he wasn't the
>One.  She actually told him he had the "gift", but she never said "You
>are not the one".  She told him that who would die was his choice.
>Her prophecy, like many prophecies, was quite vague, leaving room for
>interpretation, and leaving Neo (see how stupid I am?  I thought he
>was Neal) to find strength within himself (and through love, just like
>HP) to really be the One.

First of all, you're not stupid!  I knew the spelling only because I've 
watched the DVD version close-captioned several times.  (As far as 
intelligence goes, this is coming from a woman who didn't figure out *The 
Sixth Sense* until she watched the director's notes on DVD.)

Next, you are being nitpicky...  <vbg>  The Oracle never said the words "you 
aren't the one, Neo".  He said it--she replied "sorry, kid."

Again, prophecy is a Strange Thing.  If one doesn't believe in it, *any* of 
it, then it's rather pointless to discuss the finer nuances of it.

Jenny--
>Now if we look at HP, *choice* is a big thing.  Harry, too, seems to
>have a gift.  What he does with it is his choice, which is partly why,
>I think, so many millions of people love HP as they do.  That is much
>more realistic than the "You are the One" thing.  Harry is not driven
>by the idea that he is the "One" to defeat Voldemort.  He, like most
>of us, must make choices as he goes, and because of his inner strength
>that I admire so much, he tends to make good choices.  Or choices for
>Good - whatever.


(Sigh.)  Why does it seem as if everyone wants to wed the Special!Harry 
advocates to fatalism?

This may sound like a contradiction, but those who are destined have 
choices.  They can choose to walk in their destiny.  Or they can choose to 
defy it.  Doesn't negate the value or the truth of the destiny itself.

I want to give examples, but all those I'm thinking of right now are 
theological--and there's no quicker way to turn the tone of the list 
belligerent than to mention certain belief systems.  ;-)

Instead, I'll end with this:  the "ordinariness" of Harry was not the 
selling point of the series for me.  Being in the majority doesn't concern 
me much... but now I am beginning to fear that I have an exaggerated sense 
of self-importance.  Not my fault, though!  I was born in August... it's my 
destiny.  ;-)

--Ebony

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