Inevitability of Prophecy (was: Prophecy Correct)

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No: HPFGUIDX 86301

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Diana" <dianasdolls at y...> wrote:

The prophecy had to have been overheard and leaked to Voldemort so 
that Voldemort would attack Harry resulting in Voldemort marking 
Harry as his equal...<snip>...So, the prophecy exists in order to
cause action and produce results that, in turn, cause the prophecy to
become true.  So, because those who heard the prophecy believed it to
be true, they act on the info contained within and MADE it come true.



Entropy:

Well, maybe not. The prophecy may remain independent of the results. 
That is, if you believe in prophecy, then you believe in the
inevitability of fate.  No matter who heard (or did not hear) the
prophecy, or who acted upon it, the end results would never change.
Even if the path to those results had been changed, the characters
would have eventually ended up in the same place anyway.

The centaurs seem to take this view of prophecy. Once something has
been prophesized by the centaurs, they seem to believe it will happen
no matter what.  Dumbledore, however, does not. In putting Harry in
Petunia's care and, later, his own care at Hogwart's, he may be trying
to delay Voldemort's attack on Harry, perhaps allowing time for
Harry's powers to become stronger and change the prophesized future.

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