Neville as Prophecy/Further thoughts on the prophecy orbs

[hickengruendler]

No: HPFGUIDX 96175

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Geoff Bannister" 
<gbannister10 at a...> wrote:
 
> Geoff:
 
> 
> 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?

My guess is, that he relabeled the prophecy without touching it. 
Maybe he did a similar spell like the one Hermione did to mark the 
already used doors in the DoM. Only instead of crosses, he was able 
to write letters on the prophecy.

My theory about Neville:
I think to 85%, that Harry is indeed the prophecy boy. Not because 
Dumbledore said so, Dumbledore could be mistaken, but because Harry 
is the one who faced Voldemort several times. If Neville will defeat 
Voldemort, shouldn't he at least know how it it is to face him. The 
chance was there in book 5, yet when Voldemort appeared, Neville was 
not around, the only time during the whole battle, where he wasn't on 
Harry's side. Howeevr, there are two scenes that might contain 
foreshadowing. The first is, that Harry thre the prophecy to Neville 
and Neville puts it in his pocket. That could mean, that harry will 
realize, that Neville is the one, and then steps aside for him. The 
second is the scene, in which Harry and Neville break the propehcy. 
Harry pulls on Neville's ropes, so that the prophecy falls out of the 
pocket, and then Neville kicks it, so that it smashed. Maybe this 
means that harry and Neville together will destroy "destiny" and it 
will be a completely unexpected end.

Hickengruendler