OOP: prophecy loophole?

[doseylel]

No: HPFGUIDX 62897

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Grey Wolf" <greywolf1 at j...> 
wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "doseylel" <doseylel at a...> 
wrote:
> > The only way I see JKR having LV kill Harry is if the one who 
> > survives is stripped of all magic powers, becoming a muggle.   
That 
> > way, Harry has still saved the WW, without becoming a murderer.
> > 
> > Doseylel (who is still trying to get rid of a throbbing headache, 
> > from too much reading and not enough sleep)
> 
> Unfortunately, the prophecy speaks of "die at the hand of the 
other". 
> While a loophole might exist surrounding the meaning of "at" in 
that 
> phrase, or at some other point, "die" is clear enough - someone's 
life 
> has to cease completely (i.e. must not survive) for the prophecy to 
be 
> fullfilled. Die does not allow in any way I can think off to simply 
> loose magical powers. Indeed, Voldemort would *want* to die if that 
> happened to him, and Harry would regret such thing but wouldn't 
> consider it dying either.
> 
> Hope that helps,
> 
> Grey Wolf, who is also trying to find loopholes in the prophecy


Now me:
I'm sorry I didn't make myself very clear.  I meant that LV DOES kill 
Harry, but at that point he also loses his powers, and is therefore 
no longer a threat to the Wizarding world.  That would be a fate 
worse than death for him.
Doseylel