[HPforGrownups] OOP: Re: OotP: Prophecy question - SPOILER.

[Rebecca Stephens]

No: HPFGUIDX 62194


--- Gino Ledesma <ginoledesma at mydestiny.net> wrote:

> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "glory"
> <glorificus21 at b...> wrote:
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> > Okay ... Just wondering if anyone else read the
> Prophecy the way I
> did ...
> > 
> > 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 ..."
> > 
> > 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?
> > 
> > Just wondering,
> > Glory
> 
> Didn't interpret it that way. I thought it was kind
> of obvious:
> neither can live while the other survives. It
> doesn't exactly, imho,
> explain the previous part, "either must die at the
> hand of the other".
>  And Dumbledore did clarify it in the end after all,
> when he answers
> Harry's question on whether he has to eventually
> kill Voldemort.
> 
> 


Either must die at the hands of the other sort of
suggests that Voldemort is the only one who can kill
Harry and vice versa.

I see no indication that Harry must die to kill
Voldemort.  It says that "neither can live while the
other lives"  this means that Voldemort cannot live if
Harry is living and vice versa.  For it to be
necessary for both to die wouldn't the prophecy have
to read "neither can die while the other lives"?



Rebecca

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