OOP: Dumbledore DIDNT explain everything

[purple_801999]

No: HPFGUIDX 62688

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Kathryn Wolber 
<katydid3500 at y...> wrote:
> 
> --- purple_801999 <purple_801999 at y...> wrote:
> 
> 
> > What I wonder is if the Potters and Longbottoms were
> > told immediately 
> > or if it was not know until Voldemort set his cap to
> > going after the 
> > Potters. I'd imagine D-dore might have waited a
> > little bit, but he 
> > also implied that no one was sure of who it would be
> > until the attack 
> > on the Potters. But it seems that both families
> > wouldn't hide for 
> > almost two years.
> 
Kathryn wrote-

. Well here's what I'm thinking.  The prophecy
> was given 16 years ago.  Harry and Neville are only
> 15.  This means it was given a full year before they
> were born.  Did anyone else find it peculiar that the
> 2 possible children know each other, their parents
> knew each other, and they were all in the Order of the
> Phoenix?  Neville and Harry were not accidents.  I
> think Dumbledore told them, "Look, Potters and
> Longbottoms, you are the only couples that fit this
> 'defeated him thrice' thing.  You both need to try to
> have kids at the end of next July.  If you don't, no
> one will be able to defeat Voldemort."  But of course
> Dumbledore would say it much more eloquently, but it
> seems to fit.  
> 
> What does everyone else think?
> 

Olivia-
D-dore said the prophecy was given "shortly" before Harry was born. 
It gives the impression that Harry and Neville had already been 
conceived by their parents of their own free will. When D-dore tells 
Harry about the prophecy it's already May so Harry is only a month or 
so away from his sixteenth birthday. The wizarding world is very 
small compared to the Muggle world as illustrated by Sirius's family 
tree. And how many other wizards had defied Voldemort even once and 
lived to tell about it? It would make sense that they would both be 
in the order that was actively working to stop him and the DEs.

The whole forced breeding thing that people sometimes theorize about 
creeps me out. How would you feel if you found out your parents had 
you because they had been told to fufill a prophecy instead of 
because they loved each other and wanted a child. Neither the Potters 
or Longbottoms seem to fit the bill and Dumbledore would never force 
his friends to try for a baby just because it might fufill a vauge 
prophecy.

Olivia