A new interpretation of the prophecy

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No: HPFGUIDX 70674

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Florentine Maier" 
<florentinemaier at h...> wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> I think the prophecy CAN'T mean what it seems to mean. Otherwise 
the 
> basic moral of the book would be "kill or be killed", and that 
> wouldn't be worthy of JKR.
> 
> So I tried to find a different meaning, and I've come up with the 
> following:
> 
BIG SNIP
> "the one with the power to vanquish the Dark Lord will be born as 
the 
> seventh month dies"
> means:
> "the one with the power to prevent that the Dark Lord will be born 
in 
> the end of July".
> 
> Therefore, time-turning will be required. Harry will go back into 
the 
> past and by making friends with Tom Riddle, he will prevent Riddle 
> from turning into Lord Voldemort. The moment Harry turns the time-
> turner, Voldemort "dies at Harrys hand", respectively will never be 
> born.
>    That would also explain the strange deja-vu experience in CoS, 
> where Harry feels as if he had known Tom Riddle before and as if he 
> had been a friend of his.
>    And it would also explain why us muggles have no ideas what 
events 
> in our world would correspond to the first reign of Voldemort in 
the 
> 1970s. (As opposed to the times of Grindelwald, which corrspond to 
> world war II.) - Because it will never have happend!
>    Talking about narrative necessities, it would also explain why 
JKR 
> has given Voldemort an "human" past, and why time-turning is 
> introduced in PoA.
> 
> What do you think?
> Florentine