I suppose technically it's fair enough, but it doesn't sit well with me at all. I was stretching it a bit, just because I always want all prophecies to come true. And maybe it doesn't have to because it causes the original one to come true. But I've always figured that prophecies are writen to the spirit, but fulfilled to the letter. Like Buffy 'dying' in Prophecy Girl. I'm sure whoever wrote it thought that she was dead. It was only Xander's refusal to accept it (and Giles assumed she'd be properly dead) that stopped it being permanent.
I also like things to be tricky like that. I'm getting a little bit tired of HP AUs where Harry and James and Lily are all alive. Because how does the war end if Harry doesn't accidentally destroy Voldemort. I am always f teh mind that the story (and indeed the world) are the best possible, that if anything in the past didn't happen, things would now be worse than they are.
It might be a bit of a difficult opinion to hold, especially in light of recent events, and I certainly don't want to argue that everything that happens happens because it has good consequences. Just the world on balance works out. Which I suppose might tend me towards fatalism, towards assuming that the future (if accurately predicted) cannot be changed.
Have you read the Hermione/Hermione timetravel fic?
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Prophecies (late reply)
Date: 2005-09-03 01:06 pm (UTC)I was stretching it a bit, just because I always want all prophecies to come true. And maybe it doesn't have to because it causes the original one to come true. But I've always figured that prophecies are writen to the spirit, but fulfilled to the letter. Like Buffy 'dying' in Prophecy Girl. I'm sure whoever wrote it thought that she was dead. It was only Xander's refusal to accept it (and Giles assumed she'd be properly dead) that stopped it being permanent.
I also like things to be tricky like that. I'm getting a little bit tired of HP AUs where Harry and James and Lily are all alive. Because how does the war end if Harry doesn't accidentally destroy Voldemort. I am always f teh mind that the story (and indeed the world) are the best possible, that if anything in the past didn't happen, things would now be worse than they are.
It might be a bit of a difficult opinion to hold, especially in light of recent events, and I certainly don't want to argue that everything that happens happens because it has good consequences. Just the world on balance works out. Which I suppose might tend me towards fatalism, towards assuming that the future (if accurately predicted) cannot be changed.
Have you read the Hermione/Hermione timetravel fic?