OoP - My ideas - Spoilers!

[karenkyla3]

No: HPFGUIDX 61562

OOp SPOILERS!!!  CLOSE THIS IMMEDIATELY IF YOU HAVE NOT READ BOOK 
5!!!!

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Shaun Hately" <drednort at a...> 
wrote:
> Posted this to OT-Chatter and received little comment. Just 
wondering what people 
> think.
> 
> I'm wondering if those jars of prophecy may be similar to the idea 
of 'secret keepers'. 
> Maybe there's something about prophecies that make them hard to 
tell to other people. 
> Maybe the jar is the only way a prophecy can be easily passed on.  
> 

This is related, but kind of off the subject.  JK said before the 
book came out that this had a lot to do with choices, going back to 
DD's comment about "it's the choices we make" that decide who we 
are.  This is apparent in the death of Sirius, but what about the 
prophecy?  How true could this prophecy possibly be as it would etch 
in stone the outcome?  DD says that the reason Harry is the chosen 
one is because of his heart, because of his damn it all attitude 
when it comes to something he's passionate about.  Part and parcel 
with that it seems to me is the unwillingness to accept the odds, 
the rules.  Harry is always hailed as having a certain disregard for 
the rules.  At the end of GoF when faced to Voldy and nowhere to go, 
he refused to accept his death and was able to find a way out.  
Perhaps, the reason Harry is able to beat Voldemort is because he is 
the only one who won't accept a ridiculous prophecy at face-value 
and will find another way.  How does everyone else weigh in on 
this?  What other ways does anyone think the prophecy idea weighs 
against JK's theme of choices?