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b'We know that prophecies exist in Harry\\u2019s world. All of the prophecies that affect Harry in some way eventually come to pass. The wording is always ambiguous enough to cause anxiety, though. \\u201cThe one with the power to vanquish the Dark Lord\\u201d meets these particular characteristics and will either kill Voldemort or die trying\\u2026 or kind of both. Voldemort\\u2019s \\u201cservant has been chained these twelve years\\u201d and will soon rejoin his master, but\\u2014plot twist\\u2014the servant isn\\u2019t the prisoner for whom the book is named. \\u201cWhen unseen children murder their fathers, then will the Dark Lord return\\u201d\\u2014but maybe not, erm, permanently.
\\nIf Firenze is to be believed, occupants of the Wizarding World have some free will\\u2014but the \\u201cgreat tides of evil or change\\u201d will come and go more or less as the heavens foretell. The ambiguity of the Prophecies we encounter in the series seems to act as a catalyst for these \\u201cgreat tides of evil or change.\\u201d It seems to me that the anxiety provoked by these prophecies usually favors the non-evil. Voldemort tries to kill Harry and is put out of commission for 13 years as a result of hearing part of the prophecy. Harry seeks and destroys Voldemort\\u2019s horcruxes as a result of his call to responsibility. Harry doesn\\u2019t really have time to respond to the \\u201cservant and master\\u201d prophecy before it comes true, but it adds credibility to her earlier prophecy, which calls him \\u201c\\u2026the one with the power to vanquish the Dark Lord.\\u201d We don\\u2019t know exactly when or how Delphi stumbles upon the prophecy in Cursed Child, but we know that she and Scorpius argue about whether or not prophecies can be broken, and that finding the prophecy is what clues Harry and co. in on what is happening with Albus and Scorpius. We can safely assume that Delphi approaches Albus because she thinks he will lead her to a Time-Turner\\u2014Mr. Diggory suspected Harry had one. Once Scorpius convinces Delphi that prophecies can be broken, she takes them back in time to prevent \\u201cthe big one\\u201d\\u2014the moment Voldemort marks Harry as his equal.
\\nI wonder sometimes what the point of a prophecy is, if it is inevitable. I think Scorpius is putting his best Slytherin foot forward when he convinces Delphi that they can be broken\\u2014if she had continued on her quest to \\u201cspare the spare\\u201d and enable the new prophecy, it is hard to say what might have happened. I think the means by which a prophecy comes to pass is flexible\\u2014especially if there is a Time Turner lying around. But I think the prophecy itself may be some kind of gift to counteract evil forces. Perhaps that is why only some witches and wizards have \\u201cthe Sight,\\u201d as Professor Trelawney would say. Maybe it\\u2019s like Dumbledore\\u2019s protection of the Sorcerer\\u2019s Stone\\u2014only those who wish to find it, but not use it, are able to get it. Perhaps the Sight is a gift for those who are essentially good at heart, but effectively pretty neutral. But I think all of that is a concept for another Minute, so I\\u2019ll wrap this one up.
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