OOP Death Eaters and more on Grindelwald

[Michal]

No: HPFGUIDX 66804

Oh, just read the book already!

Jenn:
> 
SNIP
> As far as someone else being able to touch the Prophecy. Obviously, 
after
> its has been taken off the shelf the protection spell (the one that 
turns
> you loony) has been broken. Because Lucious asks for the prophecy 
without
> fear of being jinxed (by the prophecy) and HP later tosses it to 
Neville who
> holds it to no effect.


AHA! But they are, in fact, the only two people who actually touch 
it! What if other people couldn't actually touch it, and the reason 
Neville could was because the prophecy IS about both him and Harry??

Maybe i'm just reaching here... I personally think that the prophecy 
refers to Harry and only Harry, but there might be something to the 
idea that the only two people who ever touched the prophecy without 
going mad were Harry and Neville.

On a completely unrelated point, I wanted to comment on the 
Grindelwald stuff. People have been speculating on whether it is 
significant that Dumbledore defeated Grindelwald around the time 
Voldie was at Hogwarts. We know from canon that Voldemort must have 
graduated in 1945 (in CoS, Nick's Deathday cake shows his death as 
having been 1492, and it's the fall, and it's his 500th death day. 
This puts CoS in the 1992-93 schoolyear, and that's exactly 50 years 
after the year Tom Riddle was a 5th year, meaning his 7th year was 
1944-45). In chapter 6 of PS/SS (The Journey from Platform Nine and 
Three Quarters), Harry discovers Albus Dumbledore's card, and it says 
that DD defeated Grindelwald in 1945. Now, I don't know what any of 
it means, but I've found (with guidance from Ms. Galadriel Waters) 
that there is no such thing as a coincidence in the HP books, so I'm 
excited to see if this particular one has any significant meaning.

I know this Grindelwald point has been discussed recently, but I 
wanted to give concrete canon examples for the stuff that's been said 
about it.

-Michal

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