So, here’s the thing…

Voldermort made Harry Potter what he was.  Without Volderment, Harry would have simply been another kid going to school.  Because Voldermort BELIEVED that Harry was the one who would finally bring him down, he made Harry into the person who would eventually destroy him. Voldermort killed Harry’s parents, starting Harry on the road to killing Voldermort himself.   If Voldermort had chosen Neville, who was born in the same month as Harry, Harry would not have become the “hero” he became, although he always had the ability to become the hero,  inside himself.   By choosing Harry, Voldermort assured is own demise. We can see, in the ending of the series, that Neville also had the ability to be brave. Neville always had the ability to become the hero.  If Voldermort had chosen Neville, he would have risen to the challenge.

This is what happens in life…all the time.  We set ourselves up, turn people into whatever we turn them into, and we ourselves are turned into what others see us as.  We react to the way we are treated by others, each according to our innate personalities, each according to the specific moment.  We can’t control how others see us, or even how we see them, since it’s all up to our own personal POV.  Our personal hero may not be activated but it’s there waiting to step forward.  In the case of Voldermort and Harry, it was simply a  case of self-fulling prophesy.  Voldermort chose the person who would kill him.

Lots of people stay with those who kill them bit by bit.  That’s a choice they make.  Like Voldermort, we often chose the thing will bring us down.  The wrong people, the wrong jobs, the wrong beliefs, addictions, whatever it is, we chose what we let into our lives.  We can stop anytime.  Voldermort could have let things go but his ego, greed and blindness, stopped him from seeing that Harry Potter was just a boy…a boy he would turn into the biggest hero in the Magical world.

Debbie and I were talking about his today.  The Harry Potter books hold the answers to every question you could ever come up with. It’s all there in black and white.  Everything.  Seriously, that’s true.  It’s the Book of Answers.