"fair is foul and foul is fair
hover through the fog and filthy air"
we're reading macbeth in my shakespeare class, and i began to realize the similarities between it and the harry potter series.
in macbeth, the three witches hail macbeth as thane of gaimis, cawdor, and then king. soon after they do this, he is promoted from thane of gaimis to thane of cawdor, and realizes the possibility of him becoming king. the only thing stopping him from being king is the current king: duncan.
so macbeth takes fate into his own hands and kills duncan.
would macbeth have become king had he not killed duncan? because it is this murder that causes macbeth to then give up his kingship. was it fate that macbeth killed duncan?
in harry potter, snape hears a part of a prophecy involving voldemort's demise. voldemort tries to kill the one who was prophesied to kill him, but through an ancient magic, harry survived.
so the question - had voldemort not tried to kill harry, would harry have been able to kill voldemort?
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