OOP: It CANT be Nevilles Prophecy / Can Harry Die?

[sevenhundredandthirteen]

No: HPFGUIDX 64580

Rach wrote:

> Does the 'kill or be killed' portion mean that Harry cannot be 
killed 
> by anyone other than Voldemort? Could he duel with a death eater 
and 
> survive simply because they are not fated to be the one to kill 
him?  
> Could he jump off the astronomy tower and come off without a 
scratch 
> because there is only one way he can die unless Voldemort himself 
is 
> dead? 

Me:

I would say yes- he could die by jumping off the astronomy tower 
EXCEPT he *won't* be jumping off the astronomy tower. He is fated to 
battle Voldemort, and one of them will die BUT if he does get run 
over by the knight bus or something then he is no longer the 
prophecised... if you follow my drift- That is, whilst Harry is 
alive, all evidence suggests that he is indeed the one spoken about 
in the prophecy, but, if all of a sudden he was to get rampaged by a 
hippogriff and die, he could no longer be the prophecised, as you 
need to be *alive*. So, in essence- at this moment it's pretty 
convincing that Harry is the one fated to defeat Voldemort, but, if 
he suddenly was dead before the prophecy had been fulfilled- he 
*couldn't* be the one in the prophecy- so the prohpecy wasn't about 
him after all- therefore the prophecy must have been referring to 
someone else all along (except that no-one realised- being so 
convinced that it was Harry).

And, anyway, Harry seems very eager to deny that he is the one in the 
prophecy the first time he hears it- although he has travelled along 
the road of accepting his fate after thinking about it as the book 
ends. So, I doubt that he will become more reckless, but perhaps more 
single minded in his fight against Voldemort and, ultimately, 
Voldemort alone- that is, perhaps the reason why no-one else can kill 
him is merely because other people are rarely put in that position. 
By that I mean, if Harry was running around being arrogant and 
reckless then there's a lot more chance of him snuffing it- whereas, 
by hearing the prophecy it's much more likely that Harry will focus 
solely on the pursuit of Voldemort and try only to defeat him- not 
letting himself be put in near-death poistions with other DE etc. Of 
course, like I said previously- he Harry *were* to be killed by 
Lucius Malfoy it wouldn't mean that the prophecy was a lie- it would 
only mean that it wasn't about Harry after all.

I have more to say, but it's very hard to express it in words when 
we're talking about such an abstract concept... :-D

~<(Laurasia)>~