OOP: The Prophecy was a Decoy

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 63142

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "lhunneb" 
<LHunneb at a...> wrote:

> 
> I don't agree.  Just because the prophesy says that there is 
someone  with the POWER to defeat Voldemort doesn't mean 
that this person will  be successful.  After all, the prophesy also 
says that one must be  killed by the hand of the other.  That 
means that there is a  possibility that it would be Voldemort who 
kills Harry.<<

Dumbledore says it's a "genuine prediction." That is,  he 
believes it contains verifiable knowledge of the future. 

 The only way any prophecy can  be verified is if, at some future 
date, it is established as truth. The only way it can be shown to 
be true (as opposed to possible) that one has the power to 
defeat the Dark Lord, is if the Dark Lord is actually defeated. 
Follow me?

Of course one or both of them may die in the process, but even if 
the Dark Lord lives, and Harry dies, it must  be the Dark Lord 
who is vanquished, ie  defeated and subjugated, if the prophecy 
is to prove genuine.

Pippin