User blog comment:SayuriDarling/The Blood of Olympus Official Discussion/@comment-1820614-20141112033720

Does anybody buy Zeus' excuse at the end that the reason he did not take action was because he did not want to lock events? He claimed that with Three Fates there are different ways a prophecy can unfold, one reason they tend to be vague, and that he did not want to limit things since once one starts interpreting and acting on a prophecy events can end only a certain way. He was trying to keep his options open.

Does anyone buy this? I accept that the reason itself is valid, but coming out of Zeus' mouth it sounds like he is deliberately twisting a perfectly valid reason to justify his inaction. Gaea already nearly raised the giants decades ago. From the start of The Lost Hero, it sounds like Enceladus, Polybotes, and several other giants had before Zeus closed off Olympus and maybe even before the second Titan War. Hera herself knew this war was coming and had already taken steps to prepare for it. So not only was war inevitable, but if the Olympians had followed Zeus's plan the Olympians would have either faced the giants alone and lost or Gaea would have been awakened and destroyed them since Zeus's pride was so hurt by having to rely on mortals he did not want to rely on them again.

So, does Zeus' reason justify his lack of action or is it more of a possibly valid excuse he is misusing to cover his own mistake?