Why Harry will Live

[misty_december]

No: HPFGUIDX 110572

Josh:
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> Unfortunately, there are no happy contrapositives in this prophecy. 
> Except for the "at the hand of", both parts say essentially the 
> same thing... The One and the Dark Lord will be irresistably drawn
> into battle with each other until the combination no longer exists... 
> i.e. at least one of them is dead. "one must die" does not mean 
> that "one must live" but that "both cannot live". "Neither can live"
> by itself would be that "both must die" except that the "while the 
> other survives" means that the death of one MAY exempt the other from 
> this requirement... i.e. it IS possible that the final battle may 
> yield a survivor, but there are no guarantees.


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So that would mean that they must both die at the same instant.  
Otherwise, one is going to survive.  This survival would mean the 
certain death of the other.
I remember JKR saying that the prophecy was "worded very carefully", 
so I started to look at each word and how it related to the others.  
To me it comes out: Either (Harry or V) must die at the hand of the 
other(Harry must kill V or V must kill Harry) because neither Harry 
nor V can (is able to) live while the other survives the duel (or 
whatever).  So I guess I just assumed that the fact that Harry 
survives is what kills V.

I knew I was terrible at logic.  LoL!  

Thanks.
Misty