Overturning the prophecy (was Re: Choices)?

[rach9112000]

No: HPFGUIDX 86556

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> Sophierom:
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  What if, instead, there were someway that Harry 
> could cause LV to lose his powers, thereby defeating him without 
> killing him? Granted, this goes completely against the prophesy, 
> which clearly states that "either must die at the hand of the 
other 
> for neither can live while the other survives" (OOTP, UK ed. 741). 
> But, as Iris has suggested, maybe Harry has the power to 
make "that 
> blasted prophecy lie" (post #86512). 
> admit, that's a sort of cheap way out of the whole thing ... any 
> ideas about ways that Harry could take the high road but still 
live 
> in a Voldie free world? Or do you think that Harry must kill LV in 
> order to go on with the rest of his life? 


Rachel:
  Just a small note that JKR might have been trying to give a hint 
in the scene after the prophecy has smashed in OOtP (british version 
pg 814) between DD and Voldie:

"You do not seek to kill me dumbledore?..." - Voldie

"We both know that there are other ways of destroying a man, Tom... 
Merely taking your life would not satisfy me, I admit-" - DD

"There is nothing worse than death, Dumbledore!" - Voldie.

"You are quite wrong... Indeed your failure to understand that there 
are things much worse than death has always been you greatest 
weakness-" - DD.

  Perhaps JKR is trying to open our minds to an alternative ending 
for Voldie and Harry other than the death of one of them? Just a 
thought.

   Rachel