Talk:Friendship is Magic, part 1/@comment-25559529-20170731013226/@comment-3292369-20170906195011

Celestia new about the prophecy, it doesn't take any divine sight as the date was mentioned in the book. The reason she sent Twilight to Ponyville is because she couldn't defeat Nightmare Moon on her own, she needed the Elements of Harmony and Twilight needed friends to use them. Celestia told Twilight to drop the issue because it didn't actually matter that she new about the prophecy or not, because of her personality she would set herself to solving the issue whether or not she knew about it before hand, and Twilight focusing on trying to figure out how to defeat Nightmare Moon got in the way of her getting friends, which is how she *actually* defeated Nightmare Moon. Moving her to Ponyville did NOT move her out of harms way because it the closest settlement to Nightmare Moon's castle and thus her base of operations, Celestia would have known all of this because she was there herself. Finally, I don't think it's a case of much as Celestia trying to fight Nightmare Moon on her own as the fact Nightmare Moon hunted her down out of revenge.

Regarding Twilight's approach to teaching friendship lessons to Starlight, Twilight is not Celestia. They don't teach in the same way because they don't think in the same way. Starlight and Twilight also had very different problems. Twilight was completely clueless and needed intensive immersion, while Starlight just needed a refresher after being evil.