A far-fetched analysis of the Prophecy

[Sabrina]

No: HPFGUIDX 69973

Lissa B:

>"Born to those who have thrice defied >him, born as the seventh month
>dies... and the Dark Lord will mark him >as his equal, but he will have
>power the Dark Lord knows not... and >either must die at the hand of the
>other for neither can live while the other >survives...."
>
>With this sentence things get >interesting.  Obviously it *looks* like
>Trelawney is predicting that the one who >has the power to vanquish
>Voldemort will be born to parents who >defied LV three times and that
>this potentially LV-vanquishing being >will be born as the seventh month
>dies.  I'm quite certain that's what >Rowling wants us to believe and
>it's certainly what Dumbledore carefully >leads Harry to conclude.  (It's
>not what Dumbledore actually says, but >I'll tackle that problem later in
>this post.)

Okay, I have to say I don't believe in your theory, although I find it very
interesting but when I read this, I suddenly had an idea.
Mainly about Dumbledore implying something to make Harry (and the reader)
believe something that's not actually true and can be interpreted in
different ways.
We know that Dumbledore says the prophesy is about Harry ( and could have
been about Neville) but how can he be so sure about that? Couldn't "at the
end of the seventh month" be talking about a baby that was born too early?
And you wrote:
>The boy born to parents who thrice
>defied him and born as the seventh >month dies should, therefore, be the
>Dark Lord.
If I understand that correctly, you mean that the Dark Lord was born at the
end of the seventh month. And we know that his mother died just after
childbirth. Now, that could mean that she had some problems during pregnancy
and therefore her son was born early.

I really can't even start to understand what that would mean for the rest of
the prophesy, only that Voldemort will be the one to defeat himself and
won't that be a nice twist after all the hype with Harry being the one?

Sabrina