Harry and free agency (was : Harry and Christ)

[Donna]

No: HPFGUIDX 78195

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "klra2ra" <jennyemike3 at c...> 
wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> klra2ra

We must remember there is still a choice inherent in the prophesy 
also.  Harry can either choose to fight or let Voldemort kill him.

D