Whose prophecy? (was Re: Why Harry?)

[Catlady (Rita Prince Winston)]

No: HPFGUIDX 54578

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Troels Forchhammer 
<t.forch at m...> wrote:

> What I would like to see is a theory that can combine the
> compelling reason to kill Harry with a (not quite as) compelling
> reason to spare Lily.

Someone has suggested that the Prophecy was that Lily's son would win 
the war for his father's side, so V wanted to kill Harry but also get 
his own son on Lily. I believe this theory is called SEW EWW IT'S IN 
THE SEWWERR, but my problem with it is that I don't believe V was 
capable of begetting a child -- part of the cost of his immortality 
spells.

As for why would anyone believe Trelawney's prophecy, I propose that 
V didn't hear it from Trelawney, but rather he read it in the stars. 
And Dumbledore knew that it was a true prophecy before it came true 
because he also read it in the stars, or the centaurs did and told 
him.