Neville as Prophecy

[Geoff Bannister]

No: HPFGUIDX 96061

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

Del:
> > > 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:
> > 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. 

Geoff:
Back to canon yet again......

"'Dumbledore never told you?'Malfoy repeated. 'Well, this explains 
why you didn't come earlier, Potter, the Dark Lord wondered why - '
'- when I say now -'
'- you didn't come running when he showed you the place where it was 
hidden in your dreams. He thought natural curiosity would make you 
want to hear the exact wording.....'
'Did he?' said Harry. Beind him, he felt rather than heard Hermione 
passing his message to the others and he sought to keep talking to 
distract the Death Eaters. 'So, he wanted me to come and get it, did 
he? Why?'
'Why?' Malfoy sounded incredulously delighted. 'Because the only 
people who are permitted to retrieve a prophecy from the Department 
of Mysteries, Potter, are those about whom it was made, as the Dark 
Lord discovered when he attempted to use others to steal it for him.'
'And why did he want to steal a prophecy about me?'
'About both of you, Potter, about both of you.... haven't you ever 
wondered why the Dark lord tried to kill you as a baby?'"

(OOTP "Beyond the Veil" p.693 UK edition)