prophecy/Firenze

[phoenixmum]

No: HPFGUIDX 79136

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Rachna" <rachnastar at y...> 
wrote:

(paraphrase)that Firnze, in his Divination lesson, tells the students 
to not put too much faith in Divination/ prophecy.
> If the prophecy was first in the book and then I read Firenze's 
> warning, I would have questioned it.  Since, she (JKR) has written 
it so 
> that it ends with the prophecy, you don't really question it.
> 
> Anyway, the point of my long-winded ramble was that maybe the 
> prophecy turns out to not be true and Rowling is just stringing us 
> along.

reply: An interesting point. But I think it is the interpretation of 
the Trelawney's Prophecy regarding Voldemort and Harry that we should 
question.  Dumbledore and Harry interpret it that Harry must be 
victim or murderer. Perhaps it is that  Harry will be the cause of 
Voldemort's downfall, not by trying to kill him, but by protecting 
himself in such a way that Voldemort's attempt to kill Harry rebounds 
on Voldemort (similar to the dual at the end of GOF or the rebounding 
curse that gave Harry his forehead scar). There's a work of 
fanfiction called "After the End" on the Sugar Quill website that 
posits a protective spell for Harry that has this effect, a spell 
involving a pledge by several of Harry's friends to die protecting 
him, thus giving Harry the power(the love of friends) to defeat 
Voldemort(a power the Dark Lord knows not).

Phoenix