Help me understand the importance of the prophecy, please

[hermionegallo]

No: HPFGUIDX 82143

To all who are entangled in this thread:
I've read what you all have written, starting w/ Dumbledad's original 
posted question, and see that there's still trouble arriving at 
consensus about this thing.  There's speculation that the real clue 
is elsewhere in the chapter; that the "neither" could mean Lily and 
James; that the prophecy doesn't really reveal much to Harry, 
Dumbledore, Voldemort, or the reader; that the prophecy is supposed 
to be understood as Dumbledore understands it...
Awhile back I posted on this in response to some others (post number 
77596, if anyone's interested) that included some grammar breakdown 
(a bit), restating the prophecy several times to include the several 
ways we could interpret either, neither and other.  What I always 
found most interesting was that the end sounded as if it referred to 
three people.
Just had to add one more complication to the mix...
hg.