Neville as Prophecy

[Jim Ferer]

No: HPFGUIDX 96095

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Jen Reese" <stevejjen at e...> wrote:
> > vmonte responds to Geoff:
> > Thanks for the quote. It reads as though only Harry and Voldemort 
> can 
> > touch the prophecy, at least per Malfoy (this is what I thought). 
> But 
> > since Neville was able to touch the prophecy then it makes sense 
> that 
> > the prophecy is about him as well....right? (Sorry, but I really 
> > hated this scene, it was rather anticlimactic for me.)
> 
> <snipped canon quote from Geoff> 
> 
> Jen: Lucius kept insisting Harry hand the orb to him once Harry 
> retieved it. "Very good, Potter. Now turn around, nice and slowly, 
> and give that to me....To me, Potter."  (US, chap. 34, p. 780 & 781) 
> 
> Hopefully they did their homework after the Bode incident, or Lucius 
> was going to wind up at St. Mungos! That assumes LV bothered to find 
> out who could hold the Prophecy once it was removed, which is a big 
> assumption. Still, it sounds likely anyone could touch it once Harry 
> or LV removed it.

I'm pretty sure the way it works is that only the people involved *can
take the Prophecy off the shelf* in the Hall.  Once that's done,
anybody can handle it.