Did JKR cheat with the prophecy? No Cigar

[ladywood_acciopotter]

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Hello everyone!
I'm Lady Wood and this is my first time here... I've read some of 
the recent messages in the group before joining and I must say I was 
delighted to come upon it. It's really refreshing to find a place 
where we can have interesting, intelligent discussions about Harry 
Potter.

Since I've missed a big part of the discussion, I may simply be stating here 
what was already stated by someone else, but here it goes...
I don't believe the prophecy restricts one's choice. It simply 
forsees how aperson is going to act. However, there are two 
different aspects that I think should be considered in the story: 
First, I think that the whole "problem" in the books was that one of 
the parts directly involved in the prophecy (Voldemort) got to know 
of it beforehand and, therefore, probably changed the course of his 
actions. If we consider this to be true, then it makes sense to say, 
for example, that Voldemort marked Harry because he knew of the 
imminent threat he represented and, by doing so, he proved the 
prophecy to be correct. On the other hand, though, if we take the 
prophecy as already having acknowledged that Voldemort would get to 
know of it, it said what it said, predicting exactly how the Dark 
Lord would act after hearing about its existence. I'm not sure if 
I'm making much sense here, but... it's a bit like a reverse logic 
to time traveling... supposedly, you have the original past and then 
the future, but, once, in the future, you go back to the past and 
change it, the supposedly "original past" then never takes place, 
given it was already modified...
Lady Wood
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