Harry Vanquishing LV without killing him.

[Geoff Bannister]

No: HPFGUIDX 146513

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "a_svirn" <a_svirn at y...> wrote:

Geoff:
> > Hm. My comment was intended to point up that the  prophecies 
> differed 
> > in that the second was more literally fulfilled than the third. 
> > 
> > Being the father of three offspring who were all born by 
Caesarean 
> > section, I can see what the prophecy was driving at; it was open 
> to 
> > being considered true whereas the third definitely wasn't.
> 
> 
> a_svirn:
> Why not, both of them are true. The difference between the second 
> and the third is that the third is contrived – a bit like with the 
> (in)famous prophesy of Merlin concerning the Prince of Wales. It 
was 
> said supposedly that a Prince of Wales would be crowned in London 
> and everyone assumed that Merlin meant a Welsh Prince (from the 
> House of Llewellyn apparently) until Edward I found a perfect 
> solution –created his own son and hire the Prince of Wales. In this 
> instance one literal meaning was cunningly replaced by another 
> literal meaning. In Macbeth's third prophesy a metaphorical meaning 
> was cunningly replaced by a literal one.

Geoff:
I see it as the other way round - the prophecy appeared to Macbeth to 
be a literal one and hence could not be fulfilled but the outcome was 
a metaphorical interpretation of what the witches prophesied.

By the by, I think you mean "son and heir". I don't think that Edward 
I borrowed his son from the local library..
:-))