He's from SF and heir to a frozen foods fortune. People now often identify wealth with an ability to resist corruption, but if it's a problem for you, know that he's rich as fuck and doesn't need to work; not that he gives off a particularly folksy image. Curtis Yarvin would be comfortable placing him on the board of directors of fascist CorpoMerica.
This shit brought me back. After HP, tons of YA novels and movies ripped off this concept (look up the plot to Divergent (2014) for an incredibly on the nose example), because it was tapping into a zeitgeist of finding oneself in an externally imposed identity, and a sort of controlled rebellion. Striving for the trappings of power while never grasping the real thing. Think: instead of forging a destiny for yourself and acting as agent, a prophesy prescribes you an adventure and you grapple with this fact psychologically as you go through the motions of fulfilling what fate and society have dictated for you. This was just sort of in the air I think and the writers picked up on it, but now there are adults who grew up reading that stuff.
None of this is my original ideas, all just half remembered from The Last Psychiatrist, a blogger whom you can read if you were looking to be diagnosed with narcissism, at great length. I believe he stopped writing it right around Current Year.