Mysterious Prophesies (was genealogy of HP)

[Geoff Bannister]

No: HPFGUIDX 88461

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Arya" <dequardo at w...> wrote:

Arya:

<snip>

> However, if it is some DoM wizards cataloguing these prophesies 
then perhaps they are the 
> ones who cast a jinx upon the spheres to allow only the Dark Lord 
or Harry 
> Potter to pick it up.  In this case, then the matter of who can 
touch the sphere 
> is not one of truth but of a wizard's interpretation.  
> 

Geoff:
Interesting in the light of the following:

"'It means,' said Dumbledore, 'that the person who has the only 
chance of conquering Lord Voldemort for good was born at the end of 
July, nearly sixteen years ago. This boy would be born to parents who 
had already defied Voldemort three times.'
Harry felt as if something was closng in on him. His breathing seemed 
difficult again.
'It menas - me?'
Dumbledore surveyed him for a moment through his glasses.
'The odd thing, Harry,' he said softly, 'is that it may not have 
meant you at all. Sybill's prophecy could have applied to two wizard 
boys, both born at the end of July that year, both of whom had 
parents in the Order of the Phoenix, both sets of parents having 
narrowly escaped Voldemort three times. One, of course, was you. The 
other was Neville Longbottom.'
'But then... but then, why was it my name on the prophecy and not 
Neville's?'
'The official record was re-labelled after Voldemort's attack on you 
as a child,' said Dumbledore. 'It seemed plain to the keeper of the 
Hall of Prophecy that Voldemort could only have tried to kill you 
because he knew you to be the one to whom Sybill was referring.'"

(OOTP "The Lost Prophecy" p.741/42 UK edition)