Harry and free agency (was : Harry and Christ)

[klra2ra]

No: HPFGUIDX 78154

> Geoff Bannister wrote:
 Basically, he was born "Harry Potter, the one who will 
> > destroy LV", and nothing he can do will change that. I hate it, 
> > because it completely goes against what DD said. Harry is the 
> > Saviour, he is the result of other people's choices and his own 
> > abilities (some of which are not even his own, but LV's anyway), 
> > not the result of his own choices.

I sort of disagree. Harry's part in the prophecy was determined by 
the choices of others but, he does have the choice to join Lord 
Thingy and therefore save his life and not require him to kill. But 
Harry would never choose to do that and as DD said, it is our choices 
that makes us what we are. 

We all are a product at least in some part of choices of others. We 
are here because of the choices of our parents, we have different 
life experiences in school, etc because of the choices of the other 
students at the school (determining how popular we are, etc.) It 
therefore falls to us (or Harry) to make choices based upon the 
options given to us. Harry wasn't given the unlimited option of 
Hufflepuff, Ravenclaw, Slytherin or Gryffindor . It was Slytherin and 
Gryffindor that were the choices available to him.

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