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Re-reading Harry Potter: ironic foreshadowing Philosopher's Stone
Aren't they ironic, those little things you notice in hindsight?

Chapter 7, The Sorting Hat:

"A horrible thought struck Harry, as horrible thoughts always do when you're very nervous. What if he wasn't chosen at all?"

I couldn't help laughing at re-reading this. Poor Chosen One. ^-^


Chapter 15, The Forbidden Forest:

Harry to Ron and Hermione: "Firenze saved me, but he shouldn't have done ... Bane was furious ... he was talking about interfering with what the planets say is going to happen ... They must show that Voldemort's coming back ... Bane thinks Firenze should have let Voldemort kill me ... I suppose that's written in the stars as well."

Um. Yes. To both. ^-^


Though it makes me wonder at the events in Deathly Hallows. I mean, if the stars predict that Voldemort will kill Harry in the Forbidden Forest, what made the centaurs change their mind and fight in the Battle of Hogwarts? Hagrid yelled at them for not helping. A little later, they act as the seventh cavalry. Why would they fight, if what the planets had told them had come to pass? Or did the stars tell them other things, like go fighting when Harry's dead, that haven't been mentioned or that I missed? Hm.