OotP: Prophecy question - SPOILER.

[lightglasshope]

No: HPFGUIDX 61898

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> Okay ... Just wondering if anyone else read the Prophecy the way I 
did ...
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> Page 741, OotP Australian adult hardcover edition, excerpt as 
follows: "... and either must die at the hand of the other for 
neither can live while the other survives ..."
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> The way I read that was that in order for Voldemort to die, Harry 
must die also. Has anyone else been as deluded as me into thinking 
this? Or am I just completely off my rocker?
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> Just wondering,
> Glory
 

It says "either must die" not that both must die, so I'm not sure 
exactly what you're getting at, however I read it in quite a similar 
way.

I wondered that if Harry happened to die at the hand of Voldermort, 
Voldermort would then "live" and by that I mean, to become a mortal? 
I hold the view that life includes death, and so if Voldermort were 
to live, he would then be killed off by the aurors, or if not, begin 
to live a "half life" similar to that lived by those who taste 
unicorn blood. That he'd be so completely poisoned by his own 
evilness, that he is no longer functional. 

I doubt this will happen, because to include that would likely 
include a fair bit of narrative which doesn't include Harry, which I 
don't think would work so well. Although if Harry realises this 
before he decides to let V kill him... perhaps it could be pulled 
off. I'm probably missing the point to this prophesy as well, and 
I'm highly doubting it will pan out that way, but it was what I 
first thought of as I was reading. 

-lightglasshope