Harry - and Neville? - the Prophecy SPOILERS

[emmamariebee]

No: HPFGUIDX 63985

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "amanitamuscaria1" 
<saraandra at w...> wrote:
> > >
> When Harry is trapped by Lucius Malfoy in the MoM (pg.709 U.K. 
> version)
> '"No - get - off - me...Neville - catch it!"
> Harry flung the prophecy across the floor, Neville span himself 
> around on his back and scooped the ball to his chest.'
> At first, I thought, hey - here's a replacement seeker in Neville!
> But then...
> Broderick Bode was supposed to take the prophecy, but wound up in 
> St.Mungo's for his trouble - 
> (pg.516 U.K. version)'"Avery told me Bode would be able to remove 
> it" "Bode could never have taken it, Master ... Bode would have 
known 
> he could not"...'
> and (pg.693 U.K. version)'"Because the only people who are 
permitted 
> to retrieve a prophecy from the Department of Mysteries, Potter, 
are 
> those about whom it was made, as the Dark Lord discovered when he 
> attempted to use others to steal it for him."..."So, he's got you 
> doing his dirty work for him, has he?" said Harry. "Like he tried 
to 
> get Sturgis to steal it - and Bode?"'
> But what, then, are the Death Eaters doing, asking Harry to hand 
the 
> prophecy over? Presumably they wouldn't be able to 'retrieve the 
> prophecy' either...
> Is the prophecy about Harry and Neville? Are they twins?
> Cheers. AmanitaMuscaria

Me: 
I was assuming that the charmed move was the actual removal of the 
prophecy from the shelf: that only those to whom the prophecy 
referred would be able to do that. Once it's off the shelf, I 
figured that anyone could do with it what they would . . . 
Otherwise, why would the DE's have been demanding that Harry hand it 
over to them?  They couldn't get it off the shelf themselves, but 
they could handle it once Harry got it down for them. 

That said, I still think that Neville's going to play some key role 
in the prophecy & in the demise of LV. No such thing as coincidence 
in the WW . . . 

Em, who will maybe get over Sirius' death in time to be able to read 
this book aloud to her grandchildren without sobbing aloud.