Aestu wrote:
Azelma wrote:
I don't think Zaryi felt anything valid or useful could come from a thread started by you in such a manner. I don't think anyone here expected anything valid or useful from this thread.
But who fulfilled that prophecy? Me, or you?
Well now we're just getting philosophical.
The prophecy in
Harry Potter reads:
Quote:
The one with the power to vanquish the Dark Lord approaches ... born to those who have thrice defied him, born as the seventh month dies ... and the Dark Lord will mark him as his equal, but he will have power the Dark Lord knows not ... and either must die at the hand of the other for neither can live while the other survives ... the one with the power to vanquish the Dark Lord will be born as the seventh month dies
Both Neville Longbottom and Harry Potter fit the description of the prophecy. Voldemort then decides to kill Harry, who he feels is the greater threat (ironic given he is the son of a Muggle-born, while Neville is of pureblood ancestry), and thus inadvertently makes Harry fulfill the prophecy. The ironic thing, too, is that had Voldemort chose to ignore the prophecy outright, it would have never been fulfilled at all.
So, did Harry Potter fulfill the prophecy? Yes. But he only did so because Voldemort made him fulfill the prophecy.