My *One* Most Rock-Solid OoP Prediction

[pegruppel]

No: HPFGUIDX 60213

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Cindy C." <cindysphynx at c...> 
wrote:
> You know, I'll bet there have been *thousands* of predictions on 
this 
> list about what will happen in OoP.  I've probably made dozens 
> myself, some of them mutually exclusive.  ;-)  We've had polls 
about 
> all sorts of predictions, too.
> 
Me:

OK, here's one:  A relative of Stoned!Harry.

I think Harry is the Secret Keeper for the Secret of Immortality.  
Harry isn't immortal himself, he's just the repository of the spell 
that will make a person immortal.  Unlike the Philosopher's Stone, 
which is needed to make Elixir of Life that must be taken at 
intervals to maintain a prolonged life, the *real* secret grants 
immortality, period.

It was hidden in Harry because, as a baby, he wouldn't know, himself, 
what the secret was, and could never betray it.  There's nothing in 
canon that says that a secret has to be something verbal, just 
information, and the secret could be a symbol, a phrase of music, or 
something else.  Just being the Keeper of this secret was enough to 
make the AK curse bounce off Harry and onto Voldemort.  Lily's death 
seems only to be enough to keep Voldemort from touching Harry, not to 
account for the spell that failed.

I don't disagree that Harry is *also* the heir of Gryffindor, and 
fated to destroy Voldemort.  I do, however, believe that if Voldemort 
had known that Harry was the Secret Keeper for the spell he most 
wants, he wouldn't have tried to kill him.  But he wouldn't have been 
able to get the information out of Harry, even if he spared his 
life.  

A neat way to frustrate the most evil wizard in a hundred years, 
hmm?  The Heir who is to be Voldemort's downfall turns out to be 
the "safe deposit box" for the one thing he wants most.  Voldemort 
should really read the "Instructions for Evil Overlords." :)

OK, that may earn me my own featherboa.  But, just to be safe, I'll 
throw in a prediction that I know will be true:

When we turn the last page of OOP, whether for the first time or the 
tenth, we'll all think: "So, what happens next?"

Peg