When Harry met Sally (was: Re: Incomplete Prophecy)

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No: HPFGUIDX 107444

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "cubfanbudwoman" <susiequsie23 at s...> 
wrote:

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> I have always wondered, though, believing as I do that he 
> HAS truly chosen for himself, what WOULD have happened if Harry had 
> exercised his choice by going AGAINST what DD planned/hoped?  What if 
> Harry had behaved as many stroppy teenagers...as many of us, I'd 
> wager to guess...would have behaved?  That is, by saying, "NO WAY, 
> OLD MAN! *I'm* not going to risk MY neck! Let somebody ELSE do this!! 
> Let the wizarding world fend for itself! *I* didn't ask for this, and 
> I CHOOSE NOT TO ACCEPT the burden!"
> 

Funny you should mention that.

I fully expect Harry to  dig his heels in and try to opt out in book 6.
He'll be just beginning to realise the implications of his little chat with
DD at the end of OoP. He will not be happy at being voted (in absentia)
as the Chief Pest Exterminator to the WW. Come back with your shield 
or on it, kind of thing.

With luck this will cause all sorts of delightful complications as Harry
tries to avoid the  fate chosen for him, possibly resulting in a fatality
or two (purely unintended of course - just as Sirius' was). And  don't
forget - this will probably where the *Temptation* rears its seductive
head. Somebody will offer Harry a (seemingly) easy way out.

It won't be, needless to say.

Kneasy