[HPforGrownups] prophecy/Firenze

[The Journalist]

No: HPFGUIDX 79251

Rachna:
If the prophecy was first in the book and then I read Firenze's 
warning, I would have questioned it.  Since, she 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.

Dan:
I absolutely agree--We've seen the multitude of possible interpretations of that thing, with it's rediculous grammar structure. 

Prophecies have been in the book since SS/PS (Firenze remarking about the stars), and we've heard the same things: it's extremely difficult to do, humans don't usually have the state of mind to interpret the signs around them correctly, and only a couple people are actual Seers, prophetic lightning rods.

Thus, it seems very, very likely that Dumbledore interpreted the Prophecy incorrectly. 

-Dan, who wishes Dumbledore would show it to Firenze...

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