OOP - Harry & Neville

[oz_widgeon]

No: HPFGUIDX 62349

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "ingachristsuperstar" 
<ingachristsuperstar at y...> wrote:

> wrote:
> > S
> > P
> > O
> > I
> > L
> > E
> > R
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> 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

I assume the question mark on lable was put there *before* Harry was 
born (as the prophesy was made before then).  They wouldn't have know 
who it was about before then would they?  After LV attacked Harry, it 
may have seemed obvious that it was Harry the prophesy was about, so 
his name would have been added *after* the original lable, but the 
question mark could have remained (it doesn't seem that quills have 
erasers).

Oz