Emma's post on a mistake in the prophecy

Sophie eschaafin at yahoo.com
Thu Aug 28 15:50:14 UTC 2003


No: HPFGUIDX 79120

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "punkstarz85" 
<emmathelegend at h...> wrote:
>Simply by reading the previous books, it's 
> obvious Lord Voldemort is going to try AK, the question is, how is 
> Harry going to kill Lord Voldemort?


I agree that Voldemort will try the AK on Harry, but I can't see 
Harry (even a batle-hardened Harry) doing the same to Voldemort.  
My initial inclination after reading the prophecy, and thinking about 
the mechanics of it is that Voldemort will die like Sirius:  he'll be 
in a battle with Harry, perhaps will be caught off guard by Neville, 
and accidently fall backwards through the veil.   JKR is already 
setting it up for us to know that no one can come back from behind 
the veil, so it would be an appropriate ending.

Neville's role in this will be instrumental; much like Gollum's role 
in LotR.  Frodo always seemed like the means to the end, but in the 
end Frodo was just the (crucial) support to make it happen.

Sophie

 






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