Neville as Prophecy/Further thoughts on the prophecy orbs

[Geoff Bannister]

No: HPFGUIDX 96200

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "vmonte" <vmonte at y...> 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....."

vmonte:
> Dumbledore was the person who relabeled it and put it back on the 
> shelf.  

Geoff:
I don't think this is according to canon.

"'The official record was re-labelled after Voldemort's 
attack on you as a child,' said Dumbledore. 'It seemed plain to the 
keeper of the Hall of Prophecy that Voldemort could only have tried 
to kill you because he knew you to be the one to whom Sybill was 
referring.'"

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

DD isn't the keeper of the Hall and the implication of the text is 
that this official was the instigator of the re-labelling.