That darn Prophecy again.. Re: Thin air/Choices

[vmonte]

No: HPFGUIDX 140037

vmonte:
I've always hated that prophecy and ever since Harry heard I thought:
Voldemort would have done better for himself if he had not paid
attention to it. Voldemort would have conquered the WW by now if it
wasn't for that prophecy.

I can understand why Dumbledore was going to remove this subject at 
the school--because it's a complete waste of time!

I could see teaching the students to look for signs by interpreting
events and people, looking for patterns in behavior, and teaching the
children to think critically--like a strategist would.

How useful is a prophecy that no one can interpret properly? How 
about Firenze?  He sees bad things coming?!  No, really?

Besides, JKR can't give us a character that's going to tell use (in
plain English) what is going to happen, or else Trelawny would have
predicted that:

Harry would date Ginny
Hermione and Ron would get together
Sirius Black was going to die
A bit of Voldemort is inside Harry
(and there is so much more)

Everything I mentioned above was spotted by the careful reader of the
Harry Potter books as things that would eventually happen.

Are we Seers? No, we just saw the signs.

Vivian