OOP: My favorite Harry/DD moment; other thoughts

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No: HPFGUIDX 64278

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Deb331 wrote:
<snip> 
> HARRY AND NEVILLE:
> Despite the ambiguities of the prophecy, I believe that Harry is 
now 
> definitely the one indicated in the prophecy.  It may be just 
because 
> Voldie went after him first, so he was the one to fulfill it.  
> Nonetheless, he is now the one who is marked and connected to 
Voldie, 
> and there is no undoing that or going back to say, "Whoops!  It was 
> really Neville all along!"  I think these types of prophecies are 
not 
> so much predestination for the individual named, as indicators of 
> what may be.  I'm thinking of "The Matrix" (I'm not a Matrix 
scholar, 
> so forgive me if I don't get this exactly right):  the Oracle told 
> Neo he was not The One, because he didn't believe that he was.  
Only 
> when he himself chose to take on that role did he become the one 
who 
> would fulfill the prophecy.
<snip> 
> 

Me: 
I had always believed it would be something like this.  I kept 
thinking of Oedipus Rex when it comes to prophicies.  When he was 
born, it was prophisized that Oedipus would murder his father and 
marry his mother.  In order to keep this from happening, he was taken 
into the wilderness and left to die.  He was found and brought up by 
someone else.  Later, as an adult, he went to the city .  Through 
different turns of events, he in fact did kill his father and marry 
his mother - he just had no clue that is who they were at the time.  
The fact that his father tried to thwart the prophecy is the very 
thing that made it come true. 

~Cathy~