The Prophecy, the End, & The Trinity

[Steve]

No: HPFGUIDX 69643

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "linlou43" <linlou43 at y...> wrote:
> 
> 
> > bboy_mn:
> > Excellent analysis, and very convincing.
> > The one part of the prophecy that has eaten away at me ...
> > 
> > Specifically, the use of the word 'either'. Why would an 
> > accomplished writer like JKR use such awkward phrasing unless she 
> > was intentionally hiding something in that phrasing.
> > 
> > Why not -
> > 
> > 'And ONE must die at the hand of the other for neither can live 
> while
> > the other survives..."
> > 
> > or -
> > 
> > 'And ONE WILL die at the hand of the other...'
> > 
> > 
> > In a sense,  we have a connected trinity; Harry->Voldemort->Riddle
> > and from Riddle back to Harry again, and it is not 'one of the two
> > must die, but one of the three must die'. ...edited...
> > 
> > I've never been so haunted by a single word.
> >
> > bboy_mn


> 
> 
>  First of all Thank you.
> 
>  Your comments gave me a possibility out of this dilema. What if the 
> *either* refers to Voldemort/Tom Riddle? What if the final battle is 
> not between Harry and the Dark Lord but between the two natures of 
> V/R? ...edited...
>    
> -linlou, who is getting WAY too excited about figuring this out

bboy_mn:

I like, I like...

Perhaps, Harry is not the actual 'vanquisher' of Voldemort, but the
catalyst by which Voldemort/Riddle resolves his internal battle
between good and evil. Harry shows V/R that the path of 'love' is far
more powerful that the path of 'evil', and that the path of 'evil' is
hopeless and ultimately doomed. Only through love does one truly live.

It could happen.

bboy_mn