A new interpretation of the prophecy

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No: HPFGUIDX 70675

--- 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:
> 
> Let's have a look at the prophecy first:
> 
> "The one with the power to vanquish the Dark Lord approaches ... 
born 
> to those who have thrice defied him, born as the seventh month 
> dies ... and the Dark lord will mark him as 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 ... the one 
> with the power to vanquish the Dark Lord will be born as the 
seventh 
> month dies ... "
> 
> The last sentence appears to be just a repetition of what's been 
said 
> before. But you could also read the last sentence another way:
> "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


Comment:
I think that is excellent!  Remeber when Herione and Harry were in 
the time room, and the deatheaters head was stuck in the jar.  She 
stopped at one point and was mussing about itme.  I have thought all 
along that this indicated the time turner would be coming back into 
the picture as some point in the future.
Fran