Overturning the prophecy (was Re: Choices)?

[thelinnealand]

No: HPFGUIDX 86622


Sophierom wrote: 
 >>> What if, instead, there were someway that Harry 
could cause LV to lose his powers, thereby defeating him without 
killing him?...this is against the prophesy,  which clearly states:

"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)... 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?...>>>

Rachel wrote:
  >>...JKR might have been trying to give a hint in the scene after the
prophecy was smashed 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.>>

Linnea:

How about a scenario wherein they are all fighting back in the Veil
Room when,after carefully manuevering by Harry, LV steps too close to
it and Sirius pulls a fast "Snatch and Switch" places with him? 

In any case, its clear DD has a "Fate worse than death" in mind for LV.

Linnea     who is always hoping for a happy ending