Possible Clues:

• Although, perhaps, fat, 'e is a very little boy
• Refuse to accept it's wrong but some think it's inevitable
• Seer's 'revelation'
• Is it the fate of Desmond to be a dwarf?
• Kismet, fate
• It's turned up in refuse - what fortune!
• Your overall circumstances
• Is it Desmond's fate to be one of 11 across's companions?
• That's the fate of that little fellow
• Although perhaps fat, `e may have a very small bottom