'The' prophecy - One or Two subjects?

[macfotuk at yahoo.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 109116

A second post - and me a newbie? Well, here goes.

JKR made it plain at her web site that she has put a LOT of care 
into the exact wording of the prophecy. Why then have more-or-less 
exactly the same words twice about he who will vanquish (whatever) 
will be born as July ends.

My own view from reading OoTP, JKR's snippets and internet 
speculation too profuse to properly credit, is that Neville AND 
Harry are the subjects of the prophecy and that BOTh will be 
required in some way to see LV off. Like so many others I cannot 
believe that a series of books about HP as hero will have him 
(Harry) in a minor role at the end but this is not to say NL can't 
be there in some large or even small, but hugely significant way. 

Harry didn't go mad on clutching the prophecy so magic tells us it's 
about him (or those who put the magic on thought so), but NL also 
held the prophecy. It could be as others have suggested too I think 
that the initial removal broke the spell - indeed, why else would 
Lucius Malfoy feel able to demand the prophecy the moment after 
Harry had done the hard part and got it from the shelf?

Only WE (readers HP and DD) know, assuming you believe this view, 
that NL might have been a subject of the prophecy and able to touch 
it, hence deatheater's not targeting NL to retrieve it for them. 
While LV may once have suspected NL was a possibility the years 
since his attempt on harry's life have convinced him, perhaps 
wrongly, that HP is the only wizard to fear*. Certainly, LV (but not 
DD I believe) thought that Harry was the only one could do it, 
though it may have required the Bode incident (attempt) to convince 
him of it.

*I should, perhaps, say deal with since LV certainly HASN'T learned 
the lesson of fearing Harry and maybe he just never can since his 
only fear is dying (oh and Dumbeldore too, maybe).

macfotuk