Macbethamort? VoldeBeth?

There was a round house. One day the owner of the house was murdered. There were only 3 people in the house at that time, the Butler, Maid, and Chef. The Butler said that he was checking the mail; the Maid said she was sitting in the corner, and the chef said he was preparing the dinner. Who was the murderer?

The maid, there are no corners in a round house!

Oh boy... if only this were the case for the Beloved Hated Macbeth, who is actually the King of Corners. Obviously, this is a very unimpressive title, but it’s very well fitting, especially for Macbeth. While Macbeth does seem to corner himself, I am speaking specifically about the prophecies he is told by the Corner Sisters Weird Sisters (wow strikethroughs are fun!). Macbeth concerns himself with the prophecies by all means, with the one exception being that he only listens to the good ones. By concerning himself so much with the prophecies that are told, Macbeth puts himself in a corner. Not even a small one at that. Imagine a room. Four corners, right? Normally, yes but I am one-thousand percent positive that Macbeth would turn our previously rectangular room with, as you said, four corners into enneacontagon (a polygon with nine sides) just he could be comfortable with the ninety corners in the room. Needless to say, Macbeth is a corner-er.

          After the first prophecy Macbeth was told came true, Banquo started to wonder about the second prophecy. Macbeth ignored Banquo because the second prophecy didn’t positively affect Macbeth. My motto has always been “if it isn't good, Macbeth doesn’t care” I mean seriously, the guy must know that he is doomed (of course he actually doesn’t, just everyone else does). As far as most of the bas prophecies go, Macbeth could not care less about them. He started to care about Banquo’s son taking the throne, like was foretold, so he decided his best plan of action was to kill Banquo and his son to prevent the prophecy from coming true…  To me, this sounds vaguely familiar.

         

          Prophecies…… Killings…. Prevention…. Doesn’t work…. They all blend together to me. If you take those five words, and mix the letters around and add some more letters and subtract some, you get Voldemort. Voldemort, our favorite villain of the Dark Arts, hates prophecies almost as much as the King of Corners.

“The one with the power to vanquish the Dark Lord approaches ... born to those who have thrice defied him, born as the seventh month dies ... and the Dark Lord will mark him as his equal, but he will have power the Dark Lord knows not ... and either must die at the hand of the other for neither can live while the other survives ... the one with the power to vanquish the Dark Lord will be born as the seventh month dies ..." 

I agree, that would scare me if I were old Voldy, but he killed two people, mangled two more, and attempted to kill two infants because he was so scared. This overall quest for power and attempt to stop the prophecy only made the prophecy come true, just like Macbeth.

          Be warned for next time: If you get a prophecy don’t try very hard to avoid having it come true, because it will. No matter what. Deal with it.

Voldemort shooting wand beams at Macbeth who is deflecting it with a mirror.