More Points to Ponder: The Prophecies

[ratalman]

No: HPFGUIDX 76265

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "T.M. Sommers" 
<tms2 at m...> wrote:
> greymalkin0602 wrote:
> > 
> > Why wasn't the prophecy from Book 3 on the shelf in the 
Ministry next
> > to the earlier one?
> 
> T.M. Sommers wrote:
>They are filed chronologically.  Or the earlier one was filed 
> under 'V' for 'Voldemort'.  Or there's a huge backlog and it 
> hasn't been filed at all yet.

I think that the prophecies may be filed according to the year in 
which they will come to pass.  I don't think it is a coincidence that 
Trelawney's second prophecy is stored in row 97, i.e., pertaining 
to the year 1997, Harry's 17th year, and his seventh year at 
Hogwarts.

While winding their way through the rows of shelves, the DA 
notice that some of the glass orbs are glowing and some are 
not:  "Some of them had a weird, liquid glow; others were as dull 
and dark within as blown lightbulbs." (p. 778, US edition)  I take 
this to mean that the prophecies that have not yet come to pass 
are still aglow; while those that have already happened, or 
maybe have been proved to be false, are dark .

Robyn