Macbeth and Harry Potter - prophecy parallels

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Geoff wrote:
> Although much bandwidth has been expended in discussing the subject 
> of the prophecy I have tended in the past to avoid these discussions 
> because I do not consider myself to be any sort of expert in this 
> area but my interest has been raised by comparisons with the 
> prophecies in Shakespeare's Macbeth made by JKR.


Potioncat:
When the moving picture version of PoA came out, JKR said there 
was/were scene(s) that gave her goosebumps and that fans would think 
was/were intential foreshadowing to the future books. Didn't all sorts 
of guesses follow that interview!?

Now it crosses my mind, particularly given the way she brings up 
Macbeth and explains it in her site, that it could have been the frog 
chorus that she was thinking of. Macbeth has come up in this site 
before, but JKR seems to respond to and think of the more casual and 
more normal fans when she answers questions. I don't know if more 
normal fans would have thought of Macbeth and Potter at the same time.

And along that line, some of her announcements seem ho-hum to this 
group, but really, can she possibly outguess all of us? And given the 
combined man-hours of reflection, we've put more time into Harry Potter 
than she has! With far less profit.

PollyannaCat: because you never know when a silver lining might come in 
handy.