JKR cheat with the prophecy - Point of Destiny

[lupinlore]

No: HPFGUIDX 124991


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "naamagatus" <naama_gat at h...> wrote:
> 
> Just a few snippets...
> 
> 
> Lupinlore:
> 
> Let us look at how this plays out with Dumbledore, a character we 
> have been discussing a great deal lately. I don't mean to imply that 
> the prophecy ONLY affects DD, but lets use him as an example.
> Particularly, lets see how the prophecy plays out in the questions of
> 1) Harry and the Dursleys, 2) DD's love for Harry vs. his love for 
> the Wizarding World.
> 
> <snip>
> 
> Of course you could argue that one is often faced with restricted
> choices in life. But rarely choices THAT restricted, and NEVER
> restricted by prophecy. Thus the prophecy becomes a rather clumsy,
> and badly failing, slight of hand to get DD off the hook.
> 
> <snip>
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> 
> Naama:
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> Although this group has been discussing DD's actions extensively, I 
> don't think that's the focus of the books. So, I don't think that JKR 
> meant for the prophecy to "get DD off the hook", but to put Harry in 
> a certain, very difficult and dramatic, position. 
> 
> 

Hmmm.  I would agree to a point, in that as you say Harry is the focus
of the books.  Therefore the prophecy's interactions with his
character are the most important.  But I don't think it's necessarily
appropriate to dismiss the interactions with the other characters as
mere side effects.  I was using DD as an example, and I agree that
this is a secondary example.  However, I still rather think many of
the effects represent deliberate actions on JKR's part to try and
obviate some of the very issues we have discussed so extensively.  And
I think that she fails rather badly in that.


Lupinlore