OOP-thoughts/questions esp. Prophecy

[chappysmom]

No: HPFGUIDX 61539

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> Anyway, the phrase "neither can live while the other survives," 
> really got me confused.  Does it mean that Voldy can't come back 
full > force unless he kills Harry?  Does it mean that Harry won't 
ever be > able to enjoy life (it appears to be getting worse and 
worse every > year for poor Harry) fully until he kills Voldy???  

------I think yes, definitely, Voldemort can't have his "life" unless 
Harry dies, and He has to die for Harry to have a real life--only V 
doesn't know that because he doesn't know that part of the prophecy. 
He know's Harry's a threat--just not how much. The first half of that 
sentence: "Either must die at the hand of the other". To me that 
means that (1) Harry's got to kill Voldemort because nobody else is 
going to be able to (climax of book 7?), but also that (2) Nobody 
else is going to be able to kill Harry EXCEPT Voldemort. The death-
eaters weren't going to be able to actually kill him if they'd hit 
him with any of those avada kedavras. 

The thing that worries me is the word "either"--how is she using it? 
Does that mean "one" must die at the hand of the other and then the 
survivor will be free from this mystical connection? Or does it mean 
that "each" must die at the hand of the other, in which case Harry is 
doomed at the end of book 7 because they'll kill each other at the 
grand finale? The word "either" has been worrying me all night.