[HPforGrownups] Re: Prophecy and Choice - Ray Bradbury's, THE ILLUSTRATED MAN.

[danielle dassero]

No: HPFGUIDX 97106

If you have ever watch the mini series TAKEN, they use
the same example, the half alien kid shows the guiy
how he dies. The guy's oldest kid browbeats him into a
stroke. AFter the guy watches that he ignore his
oldest son. And when the son watches his dad dies he
guessed that's what his dad saw and it came true. Now
if the dad had been a good loving father to his oldest
son he probably wouldn't have died that way. But he
knew the future and in trying to prevent it it came
true. That's why knowing teh future is never a good
idea.
Danielle
--- delwynmarch <delwynmarch at yahoo.com> wrote:
> vmonte wrote:
> > The prophecy only unfolds the way it does because
> Voldemort 
> > chooses to believe it.  He makes it come true.  If
> he had ignored 
> > it in the first place he would have probably
> conquered the WW by 
> > now.
> 
> 
> Del replies :
> We don't know that. It's easy to say, now that it is
> past, that LV 
> made the Prophecy come true because he chose to
> believe it. But 
> maybe the Prophecy would still have come true even
> if LV had ignored 
> it. There is not necessarily only one way to fulfill
> a Prophecy.
> 
> Example : LV (and everyone else) chooses to ignore
> the Prophecy, and 
> keeps on with the War as planned. Well, since they
> have already 
> thwarted him 3 times, the Potters are obviously
> strong adversaries. 
> So maybe they thwart him once more, and in his wrath
> he decides, a 
> year after the Prophecy was made, and without
> thinking of it at all, 
> to go and kill them. There's no Fidelius Charm, no
> traitor or 
> whatever, but still there's the double murder, Lily
> trying to save 
> her baby and losing her life in the attempt, and
> thus the rebounded 
> AK. The only weak point in my theory is that many of
> us suppose that 
> Lily did something more than just sacrifice herself,
> that she put a 
> Charm on Harry. But she could still have put that
> charm on Harry 
> anyway, just because she could do it and figured it
> could come in 
> handy someday. So you see, nobody cares about the
> Prophecy and still 
> it is fulfilled. And then of course, everyone would
> think that LV 
> could have avoided fulfilling the Prophecy if only
> he'd believed 
> it :-)
> 
> Del, who could come up with at least half a dozen
> other scenarios of 
> how LV could have fulfilled the Prophecy.
> 
> 



	
		
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