OOP - Harry & Neville

[ingachristsuperstar]

No: HPFGUIDX 62341

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "ckwmoore" <ckwmoore at y...> 
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> Surely the prophecy must refer to Harry since he was able to 
retrieve it.  Malfoy tells 
> Harry that "the only people permitted to retrieve a prophecy, 
Potter, are those about 
> whom it is made".
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> Chris


But perhaps the reason only people about whom the prophesy concerns 
can retrieve it is due, not to the nature of the prophesy itelf, but 
the way it was stored by Dumbledore or the Department of Mysteries.  
What I mean is, Trelawny made the prophesy but someone must have 
recorded it into the sphere.  The sphere might then be charmed so 
that only those involved in the prophesy can get it.  If this is the 
case, then it may well have been charmed such that only Harry could 
get it because whoever set up the security _assumed_ it was about 
Harry.  It is, afterall, Harry's name that appears on the label, 
albeit with a question mark.

This is clearly pure speculation.

The question still remains why the DE's couldn't just have broken the 
shelves like the kids did!

-Ing