Neville as Prophecy

[suehpfan]

No: HPFGUIDX 96057

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "vmonte" <vmonte at y...> wrote:
> 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 responds:
> 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. 
> 
> 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.

I think it even more telling that the people who Harry did not want 
to take with him to the MoM were the least injured and the last ones 
standing.  He obviously underestimated all of them.  As far as Nevill 
is concerned, I believe he needed to be there in the end so that he 
could finally face the person who basically killed his parents in 
order to come into his own power.  His father's wand destroyed, his 
magical confidence bulstered by a year of the DA and surviving the 
events of the MoM, I bet Neville is ready to tell his story sometime 
in year six.

Sue, Who is back after her computer was fixed and a trip for Spring 
Break.