The Darkness Within

[Sharon]

No: HPFGUIDX 119038


> > azriona wrote:
> > > <snip>  By taking Harry's blood at that point,
> > and bringing Voldy back to power, he managed something quite
> > incredible - he rendered Voldy mortal. <snip>
> > 
> > 
> > Carol responds:
> 
> > We've already discussed why DD didn't try to kill LV at the MoM, 
> but if LV is mortal, *couldn't* DD have killed him, Prophecy or no 
> Prophecy?
> >
> 
> Valky:
> I think DD said he *could* kill him but that it would not be 
> satisfactory. 

Satisfactory to DD's ego or satisfactory to the Prophecy itself?

> Carol:
> > Either A) the Prophecy is wrong (or being wrongly interpreted by 
> DD, Harry, and most readers) 
> 
> Valky:
> I don't think DD is interpreting it wrongly.

I've always been suspicious of DD's assurance that he knows exactly 
what the Prophecy means.  (Either of them, actually.)  They're too 
vaguely worded and could have too many meanings.  For any one person 
to say "This bit means *this* and that's all there is to it and I 
won't hear any arguments" seems to be extremely close-minded to me.

I wonder that DD in the MoM when he wouldn't kill Voldy wasn't just 
him trying to live up to what he perceived to be the terms of the 
Prophecy.  He didn't try to kill Voldy because he *believed* that it 
was not him who was supposed to do it, or even that he would be able 
to do so.  Therefore, why bother trying?

Dumbledore's logic has always seemed a bit faulty in this regard, at 
least it has to me!

But then...I still think that Neville might have been the one 
mentioned in the Prophecy, and that Trevor is the HPB, so there you 
are.

--azriona, who doesn't live in Arizona any longer, but grew up in Yuma