[HPforGrownups] Voldemort's Strategy (was Loss of/Harry's Special Powers)

[Amanda Lewanski]

No: HPFGUIDX 10167

ebonyink at hotmail.com wrote:

> You're right.  The one problem is that we don't know *what* Lily's
> powers were.  We do know now that Lily needn't to have died.

Point: do we know this for any other reason than Voldemort said it?
Because Voldemort is, among other things, a truly sadistic bastard and he
might have told Harry this to hurt him. When he was after Harry and Lily
was in the way, he would have said anything to get her out of the way. So
unless there's corroborating evidence, I mistrust this a bit.

> Prophecy detractors say that if there WAS something special
> about Harry--some "messiah figure" prophecy--we would have
> heard about it by now.

Why? If it was Trelawney's first prediction, take a look at how her second
was received. Harry heard it, told Dumbledore, that's it. Since Dumbledore
is the only person to mention this first prediction of hers, perhaps only
he, and a very few others, know what it was.

--Amanda