First prediction's happened, third possible?

[mrnipha]

No: HPFGUIDX 83762

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Paul Smith" <suzie_t666 at h...>
wrote:
> Hey everyone,
> 
> Thanks for the replies I got, I just thought I'd expand a tiny bit 
> more and remind anyone who missed it of the main bits.
> 
> > Just been looking through the FAQs for OotP and a thought occured 
> to me when looking at the ones concerned with the prophecy.  Are we 
> > being lured by JKR into thinking Trelawny's first prediction is 
> more important than it actually is?  
<major snip>
> Anyone else?  Has the first prophecy already happened?  Has it not?
 
> Someone put me in my place, that way I might be able to develop it
a 
> bit further.
> 
> Love flavoured Beans for all, Suze xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

I posted back in July (message #70383) along similar lines.  I will
just summarize here.  In my opinion, only the first part of the 1st
and 2nd prophesies has occurred.  Voldemort was vanquished by baby
Harry, and his servant (Peter aka Wormtail) has escaped and aided his
master to rise again.  The second part of each of the prophesies is
ongoing or still to come.  We have not seen Voldemort "greater and
more terrible than he was" yet as the 2nd prophesy predicts, nor has
one died "at the hand of the other" yet.

I agree that a 3rd prophesy is unlikely unless it is self-contained in
the first part of Book Six.  I envision the second part of the 2nd
prophesy coming to fruition in Book Six, and the second part of the
1st prophesy in Book Seven.

I definitely do not think that the 1st prophesy is complete.  The link
between Harry and Voldemort is why "neither can live while the other
survives", and I do think that it is crucial to the entire story arc.

There are many interesting possibilities to explore.

MrNipha