Neville as Prophecy/Further thoughts on the prophecy orbs

[Geoff Bannister]

No: HPFGUIDX 96165

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<willowsgreyghost at y...> wrote:
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> vmonte <vmonte at y...> wrote:
> 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......

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> 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? 

SB4E: 
> Read futher...he does say that only Potter or the Dark Lord can 
remove it, but he is also telling Harry to give the prophecy to 
him...if he thought that he couldn't touch it, he sure wouldn't be 
asking for it...Therefore, there is a spell that prevents them from 
removing it from the shelf, but once off, anyone can handle it.

Geoff:
A point I made in message 96125.

A further thought struck me tonight. If the orbs are only accessible 
to the persons named, how do Department of Mysteries staff manage to 
handle them without being affected?

This came out of the following bit of canon:

"'But then..... but then, why was it my name on the prophecy and not 
Neville's?'
'The official record was re-labelled after Voldemort's attack on you 
as a child,' said Dumbledore....."

(OOTP "The Lost Prophecy" p.742 UK edition)

The keeper of the Hall of Prophecy must have had access to the 
label.....

Thoughts anyone?