Harry must be the one

[Cathy Drolet]

No: HPFGUIDX 108371

Inkling
"At the end of OOtP Dumbledore also states very clearly, when it comes 
to prophecies,"*only* (my emphasis) the people to whom they refer can 
lift them off the shelf without suffering madness." US version, p.829.

Harry lifted it off the shelf and did not go mad.  There is only one 
child referred to in the prophecy.  Therefore, Harry must be the one.

I don't see any wiggle room here, guys."


DuffyPoo:

HP can lift the orb off the shelf because it was determined, by the Keeper of the Hall of Prophecy, that HP is the one.  Changed the label and probably changed the protection spell on the orb, as well.  Unfortunately, this was done after the events of GH, where HP *appears* to be the one.  DD jumped to the wrong conclusion and so did the Keeper of the HoP.

Initially the label was Dark Lord and (?).  For that first 15 months or so the prophecy could have been lifted down by LV, HP or NL.  Only now that 'it seemed plain to the keeper of the HoP that LV could only have tried to kill you because he knew you to be the one' has the label been changed. Everyone is underestimating LV (and I can't, for the life of me, figure out why.  LV is not opposed to killing innocents).  He wouldn't possibly have only tried to kill the one he figured was his biggest danger - just in case he made the wrong decision...he would have killed both kids and maybe more 'who might possibly work into the prophecy someday' as well. They all assume that LV went after HP because LV thought HP to be the most danger to him.  Hooey.  He was going after every kid the prophecy could possibly refer to.  He just didn't get there - thanks to Lily.  

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