CCP marked HKers as its Equal

But HKers will have power the CCP knows not.

Huge Harry Potter fan here. I turn to the series of novels when I feel frustrated about the movement in Hong Kong. I find encouragement and courage in them. The books taught me a lot in life, and always give me hope to continue the fight for our rights in HK.

I was revisiting the fifth and the sixth these few days, and I can’t help but feel like Hong Kongers are more or less like Harry Potter — we never wanted the fight, but we were being marked by the CCP as its equal and now we will have to fight at all cost for our survival.

“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….”

— Sybill Trelawney’s prophecy made to Albus Dumbledore

There was a conversation between Dumbledore and Harry. Harry did not understand and was frustrated about the “love-is-the-strongest-magic-thing” Dumbledore had been telling him. He tried to argued against Dumbledore that he was nothing but ordinary, he had no special or extraordinary powers to fight against Voldemort.

And Dumbledore said,

“Harry, Harry, only because Voldemort made…