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Predetermined role in life? That's a tough one. You see, we can figure out a lot of things from the numbers around us: who we are, what we might become, and how people and things affect each other. Numbers don't lie, but they do change. They don't always seem to make sense on the surface, but you just have to know what to look for.
That's what I do. I teach my students what to look for. I love teaching Arithmancy, and I love living at Hogwarts. The concept of fate or destiny or whatever never really entered into any practical decisions in my life, but I believe that I am who I was born to be.
We don't have control of the world we are born into, but we do have control over what we do with the gifts we are given. I wonder sometimes: what sort of person would I be if I weren’t a witch? My mother was Muggle-born, and her side of the family is very, very different from my wizarding relations. Would I be a very different person if she hadn't died so horribly? If I hadn't seen it? There are so many things that make us who we are that are out of our control that I can't help thinking that some of them, at least, are part of a larger plan. Call it destiny, if you will. I just try to find the patterns in it.
~Professor Anna Vector
Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry
That's what I do. I teach my students what to look for. I love teaching Arithmancy, and I love living at Hogwarts. The concept of fate or destiny or whatever never really entered into any practical decisions in my life, but I believe that I am who I was born to be.
We don't have control of the world we are born into, but we do have control over what we do with the gifts we are given. I wonder sometimes: what sort of person would I be if I weren’t a witch? My mother was Muggle-born, and her side of the family is very, very different from my wizarding relations. Would I be a very different person if she hadn't died so horribly? If I hadn't seen it? There are so many things that make us who we are that are out of our control that I can't help thinking that some of them, at least, are part of a larger plan. Call it destiny, if you will. I just try to find the patterns in it.
~Professor Anna Vector
Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry