Neville as Prophecy

[delwynmarch]

No: HPFGUIDX 96056

Del wrote:
> > The rule about Prophecy is not that only those concerned by it can 
> > *hold* it, it's that they are the only ones who can *pick it up* 
> > from the racks in the DoM. Once Harry picked it up, anyone could 
> > hold it, that's even why the DEs were there : to get the Prophecy 
> > straight from Harry's hands.
 
vmonte responded:
> Really? I did not know that. I really need to read the MoM scene 
> again. I thought that only the person that it was about could touch 
> it. I figured that the DEs were just going to force Harry to bring 
> the jar out to Voldemort. 

Del :
Nope. In fact, many of them tried to get the Prophecy from Harry,
Lucius at first, and then Bellatrix among others.
Though I must admit that we don't know what would have happened if
they *had* touched it. You could be right, there *could* be something
special about Neville, maybe anyone else would have suffered from
touching the Prophecy. But we don't know.

Vmonte : 
> I still think that it's interesting that JKR only has Neville and 
> Harry actually touching the prophecy. It seems unusual that this 
> would have no significance. If it wasn't important why didn't the 
> children pass the jar among themselves...curious.

Del :
That one is easy : the DEs were after the Prophecy, so Harry didn't
want to endanger any of the other kids by passing it on to them.

Del