From reading all of the questions to JKR, it got me thinking, and I think it would be fabulouse to get some feedback...
Do you all think that it's possible that DD was wrong about why Voldy chose Harry. I can't remember who mentioned it, but, I think it was brought up before that Harry can't be a half blood like Voldy, because BOTH his parents were non muggle?
If so, then why would Voldy choose Harry?
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Actually, the subject of Voldy calling Harry a half-blood like himself has come up a lot. It is odd, because, as Locke said, James was a 'pureblood' and Lily wasn't muggle but a muggle-born witch. By the definition in the earlier books, that would make Harry a pureblood, himself. It wasn't until later that JKR actually started using the term 'half-blood' with reference to Harry.
As for Dumbledore being right or wrong about why Voldy marked Harry, I assume (and really hope) that this will be cleared up in the next book. Dumbledore did say that, initially, there were two possible boys - Harry and Neville - but that by attacking Harry, Voldy fulfilled the second half of the prophesy (that he didn't know about) and marked Harry as the one who must defeat him.
The prophesy was sort of a let down for me, since it was largely self-fulfilling. What I want to know is why Voldy assumed that Harry was the threat rather than Neville. I really, really, really hope that it wasn't a case of Voldy planning to hit both boys and just happened to get Harry first. I am hoping there is still something we don't know about James and Lily that made Harry the greater percieved threat to Voldemort.
I think the more important question is whether or not the the prophecy would ahve happened if it had not been "prophecied." I guess the real question is what exactly is a prophecy? Is it merely a realization of the inevitible, a subconscious recognizing all of the anominalies, if you will, and say mathamatically seeing the outcome (think matrix). On the flip side could divination be DIVINEation, and some higher power setting into motion and therefore making something inevitible. We've seen trelawny's two prediciton, and both have been self fullfiling, is it some higher power a god, or maybe just the natural power of good making somehing happens in just the right way. Just a thought
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"Something I thought of in regards to the Prophesy is that "born to those who have thrice defied him..." referred to James, James father and then his father. Not James and Lily. She might have nothing to do with the prophesy which would obviously explain why Voldemort said that she didn't have to die. I think it has to with the Potters and their history. This was just my initial thought after reading OotP for the first time. "
So, maybe that's what this really does mean. We know that DD is only human, and his interpretation as far as I could gather was that he would be born to a mother and father who have defied him, not a blood line.... I hope there's something in the next book to clarify....
But, hold up..... if we go with this train of thought, is it so impossible that it could still be lillys side? We don't know anything about her muggle family, or Tom Riddles life while he was in the muggle orphanage...... ( I know, highly unlikely, but, I'm still having a hard time letting go of the fact that Voldemort was willing to let her save herself. Doesn't seem like him to care who he kills....)
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If you bring up the worn theory that Lily is related to Voldemort, I'm going to start poking you with a stick...I HATE THAT THEORY.
I think a prophecy is something that COULD happen, not something that will. There is no way to tell the future for certain. To say there is would be to say there is predestination and therefore no free will. I can't believe that everything that happens is assured to happen. I think, therefore, that a prophecy is just the more likely outcome to a series of events that take place that lead up to a certain event, but that it is not the only and assured outcome.
As for the prophecy, by its own wording, it seemed to relate specifically to Harry's parents, not lineage, unless you have a very broad definition of parentage being the same as ancestory.
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I have to agree with Helen on the prophecy - the whole series we've been hearing about how important "choices" are and yet we're meant to believe that Harry has no choice in how things end because some silly Divination teacher said so?
slightly contradictive dont you think?
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I am really mixed up on all of this. Not that I don't know what I'm talking about, but more so that I don't know what ideas I like more and what I want to see happen in the stories from this point on about the parents, Harry, Voldemort, and the rest of the prophecy. I mean I kind of like the idea about it being James, and then going back to his father because it does explain why Lily was seemingly not a neccecery death. At the same time I kind of want it to be James and Lily because that is the more likely outcome. I mean we really don't nkow much about either of their parents, actualy nothing at all. For all we know they could have already been dead before Voldemort even started his reign.
As for the prophecy, I personaly in reality tend to think on the same lines as Helen and LilMiss about it being the more likely outcome of a series of events. But, it is more so what JK beleives then what anyone else beleives that will make it in the story. Or hell, she doesn't even have to beleive it to write it. It all depends on what way her beleifs or imagination goes when she writes. She could beleive like we do, but then write something different saying that a prophecy is final (assuming you realize everything that is said and think of every possible outcome), or she could beleive a prophecy is final, but then write it in the story a different way, that it is the more probable outcome. ...In all reality I had a point to this when I started typing, but now I seem to have lost it...
