Prophecy/Trelawney/Voldemort/Worries about Books 6 and 7

[ellejir]

No: HPFGUIDX 70952

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Diana_Sirius_fan" wrote:
"But my point was, I still can not accept the fact that the whole WW 
and Voldemort would put so much weight on a prediction.  And like I 
said before, a prophecy could not have saved Harry from the AK 
curse.  It had to be much much more than that."

Me:  
The prophecy did *not* save Harry from the AK curse. He was saved 
by "very old magic"--his mother sacrificed her life to save him. 
Hence all that mumbo-jumbo about him being safe from Voldemort while 
he lives with his mother's blood relatives.  It does seem as though 
the prophecy was real since:
1.  Dumbledore believes it was real
2.  The part about Harry being marked by Lord V has come true
But the wording of the prophesy is deliberately opaque, and I think 
that is probably significant.
Elle (who also confesses to not be a fan of the "Heir of Gryffindor" 
theory)