Thin air/Choices Was re:sex/VanishingCabinet/SoulsEtc/Badger/Ch.2/

[finwitch]

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> 
> >Ffred wrote:
> >I suspect that had I been Harry, I'd have replied
> >"Yes, Headmaster, I rather thought that that was inherent in the 
> >definition of the word prophecy. ---
> 
> Saraquel:
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> I think that DD exhorts the whole school to beware of what comes 
> naturally and engage reason, in his, "choose what is right over 
what 
> is easy." 

Finwitch:

Well - I like that piece of what Ffred said - it's a prophecy if it 
WILL happen anyway. Otherwise it's no different from prediction which 
is, of course, quite different.

Remember when Dumbledore asks Harry that if he had never heard of 
prophecy, would he *still* do what he can to defeat Voldemort - and 
Harry says he would.

I don't think Dumbledore means to undermine the prophecy. He just 
wants to make it clear that Harry shouldn't be choosing whether or 
not he's *following* a prophecy, but what it is he'd do if the 
prophecy did't exist. Does anyone think that Voldemort needed a 
*reason* to kill James&Lily? Or that he wouldn't of killed this 
couple who had *thrice defied him* given half the chance? The few 
lines from the prophecy merely got him to prioritise the killing of 
the Potters... BTW, I find it possible that Voldemort intended to 
kill both prophecy boys... both were hidden under Fidelius Charm -- 
He killed Potters first because the rat told him where to find them. 
He couldn't find the Longbottoms. Who was their SK? Frank's mother?

Finwitch