Harry's Protection (was Re: Questions)

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No: HPFGUIDX 119303


Snow (me) previously:
> <snip> According to the prophecy, Harry was born with the `power' to
> vanquish the dark lord. Harry already had this power but it may have
> become reinforced with his mother's protection. As Harry grows and
> questions his own behavior, after the fact, he may learn how to
> control this power to its eventual necessity to defeat Voldemort. 
<snip>

Carol snipped:
"The one with the power approaches" doesn't necessarily suggest that
Harry is born with the power. Granted, Harry has not been born yet,
but we don't know how far in the future the "approach" is. As I read
it, the Prophecy can apply to either Harry or Neville until Voldemort
"marks {Harry} as his equal." So the power may well have entered Harry
with the combination of his mother's sacrifice and the rebounded AK.
(I still think there's more to it, and that his mother placed a charm
on him that enabled him to survive the SK in the first place and
allowed Dumbledore to extend the blood protection to Privet Drive
through Petunia, but I won't get into that.)

Snow:

You may very well be correct. However you were reading the first line 
of the prophecy and I was reading the last:
"The one with the power to vanquish the Dark Lord will be born as the 
seventh month dies"
This does not actually state that Harry was born with the power but 
rather the one with the power
will be born
Defiantly room for 
skepticism although it appears to me that `with the power' 
proceeding `will be born' has a certain annotation.  

Snow