Prophecy was: Re: Crouch/Moody/surviving AK

[severelysigune]

No: HPFGUIDX 97002

 vmonte:
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<< (By the way, my personal feeling about the prophecy is that it is 
a hoax, a diversion, created by someone to keep Voldemort busy and  
distracted from conquering the WW.  Is Trelawny really a seer? Or is  
someone using her as a conduit? Is this person trying to occupy both  
the DEs and the Orders time? I'm completely guessing here. It's just  
that I really have something against the prophecy. It goes against  
everything the books are about. Where is choice and free will?  If  
Voldemort had ignored the prophecy in the first place he probably  
would have been better off? (It's like people who cannot start their  
morning without reading their horoscope in the paper? I mean come on! 
Just look how general and nondescript those horoscope readings are.)  
My guess as to why DD did not want to have Divination taught in  
school is because it takes away choice, peoples free will.  It's like 
the Mirror of Erised -- "...this mirror will give us neither 
knowledge or truth. Men have wasted away before it, entranced by what 
they have seen, or been driven mad, not knowing if what it shows is  
real or even possible... It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget 
to live, remember that."  (page 213,214, U.S.)>>


Sigune now:
I must agree with you there. I was thinking about the whole prophecy 
business only this morning. IF it is a real prophecy, then my feeling 
is that everybody (including Dumbledore) is probably misinterpreting 
it. Not that I can see so easily what the *right* interpretation is 
supposed to be; it is just that the nature of prophecies is so 
tricky; everybody always keeps getting their meaning wrong and they 
can be made to fit any facts. Also, mythology abounds with stories of 
people trying to avert the things predicted by oracles, only to end 
up fulfilling them. I came to the conclusion that the best thing for 
Harry to do would be to simply ignore the prophecy [the only reason 
he needed to know about it is that he has to be able to make sense of 
why Voldy is after him], or else he will be influenced by it and that 
never does any good - as you say, vmonte, it would make him believe 
he is predestined to something (murder); and then something which may 
actually *not* be the implication of the prophecy but just a 
misconception. I only fear that, now that Dumbledore has shown him 
the full prophecy, it is too late: Harry is terribly shocked. *sigh*. 
I just hope he will be cleverer than that.

Hm - this sounds muddled. Just to say the prophecy does not sit 
comfortable with me, and I am suspecting/hoping it, with vmonte, to 
be a hoax.

Yours severely,

Sigune