The Scar. Was: Choices - or not

[whizbang]

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Hitomi wrote:
> Hey Carol and Whizbang!  I'm just going to add my tiny two pence > 
> to this argument, and say that while I agree that both your points 
> are more than valid, though Whizbang, I too agree with Carol that 
> we sometimes like to take our own theories for granted, I still 
> don't particulary think Lily placed a charm on Harry, though she 
> could have.  If she did, I'm prone to think it was a combination 
> of that, the prophecy, and the old magic (a.k.a. love) that DD 
> speaks of (that LV underestimates, because he despises it, and 
> also because he doesn't understand love) that saved Harry that 
> night.  
> 
> The prophecy, in my opinion, would only work for whichever boy LV 
> chose (hence the phrase "the one").  He chose Harry.  So when he 
> attacked that night, whatever universal clauses or magic are at 
> work concerning this prophecy, worked to have the Curse back-
> fired, and thus, Harry marked as LV's equal.  I don't believe 
> Harry might have necessarily had the power to begin with, we don't 
> know, though it's possible.  But I do believe he has it now, 
> because LV fulfilled that element of the prophecy.  And in 
> fulfilling it, Harry is now somehow his equal, and THAT more than 
> likely saved him that night (at least that's my half-formed 
theory).
> 

Whizbang here:

I'm baffled again.  Why would the opening phrase of the prophecy 
be, "The one with the power to vanquish the Dark Lord approaches," 
if he didn't have the power?  Wouldn't it have said something 
like, "The one who will have the power to vanquish the dark lord 
approaches"?  

And if Neville was also a possibility, it would have to be different 
again.  "Between those approaching the dark lord will choose and 
mark one who will then have the power to vanquish him." 

I don't know.  The first phrase of the prophesy seems kind of cut 
and dried.