Neville as Prophecy

[potioncat]

No: HPFGUIDX 96126

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Geoff Bannister" 
<gbannister10 at a...> wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "vmonte" <vmonte at y...> wrote:
> 
> vmonte:
> > 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.)
> 
> Geoff:
> But Neville only handles the prophecy orb /after/ it has 
> been "retrieved" by Harry which is OK. Notice that Bellatrix tries 
to 
> use an Accio spell to get the orb just after the Death Eaters 
arrive.

Potioncat:
But you can look at this from two points of view.   In the WW it 
might not matter who touched the orb after Harry took it down.  As a 
literary devise it is possibly significant that it was Neville who 
touched it.   I cannot give pages or even which books, but at least 
twice Harry had dreams about being replaced at quidditch by Neville.  
This was before we knew about the prophecy.