Why should Harry save the WW? (Was: McG / DD / ...)

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Pippin:
I think you are leaving Voldemort's choices out of the equation 
here. True prophecy, Firenze tells us,  does not foretell trivial 
events, therefore there is no way that Harry can be a trivial 
person. Even if Harry slips away to Sidney AU and becomes a 
used broomstick peddler.  As prophecy is not a branch of magic 
Voldemort has neglected, he must know this.
 
Having set his sights on immortality, Voldemort must 
eliminate all  who stand between him and his goal, and his 
potential vanquisher is first on the list. Is that reasonable? No, 
but reasonable people do not have  "Evil Overlord" on their 
resume.
 
Regardless of whether Harry chooses to be a weapon or not, he 
will remain  Voldemort's chosen target. Whatever Harry has been put 
through, the necessity  was not  to make Harry a better 
weapon. The necessity was to make him a harder target.
 
As for the theme of choice, it is true that if Harry takes what he 
has been told seriously he has no choice but to fight or die. But 
he does have the choice of not taking it seriously, just as Fudge 
did.



Alla:

Hey, Pippin! I agree with you - it is very likely that Harry will 
not be safe anywhere else and that alone may make him want to fight, 
althought I don't think that it is a 100%, because I think that it 
is a possibility that prophecy may have been misinterpreted.
I so want to know WHY Dumbledore is so sure that he got the prophecy 
correctly, especially since Firenze says that humans are often 
wrongly interpret the predictions (I cannot find that quote)

I also hope that that indeed was what it was - "to make him a harder 
target", not "better weapon". If Dumbledore INDEED concerned with 
helping Harry to survive that final battle .


Just my opinion,

Alla