Prophecy question

[Cathy Drolet]

No: HPFGUIDX 108187

Amdorn said:

"What about the second prophecy made by Trelawney?  Does this mean 
that the "servant" that returns to Voldemort have to be Wormtail or 
can it be Crouch?  I don't have my book with me to double check the 
requirements in the second prophecy."


DuffyPoo now:

"The Dark Lord lies alone and friendless, abandoned by his followers.  His servant has been chained these twelve years.  Tonight, before midnight, the servant will break free and set out to rejoin his master.  The Dark Lord will rise again with his servant's aid, greater and more terrible than ever before.  Tonight...before midnight...the servant...will set out...to rejoin...his master..." (PoA)

We certainly have seen that Wormtail has fulfilled most of this prophecy.  Transformed to a rat before midnight, we know from the end of GoF that he rejoined LV in Albania.

The only problem I see is the 'Tonight, before midnight, the servant will break free and set out to rejoin his master' if we take that literally.  Crouch, Jr, may have thrown off the Imperious Curse that night, before midnight, but we don't have anything to support that he 'set out to rejoin his master' then. Every time Barty, Sr., saw that Jr. was overcoming the curse, he Imperio'd him again.  He obviously wasn't in Azkaban long enough to lose his powers, we know he still has magical ability throughout GoF.  Would Jr. have known where LV was in order to, say, apparate to where he was?  That night, as far as we know, LV was still in Albania.  That is where Worm found him, not that night, but sometime later, he had to travel as a rat, after all, and where Worm met Bertha Jorkins who went on holiday to Albania, probably in early July, as Bagman said 'She'll wander back into the office some time in October, thinking it's *still* July.'  LV/Worm didn't know until they heard it from Bertha, that Barty, Jr was still alive and was out of Azkaban, living in his father's house.  They came to Crouch, Jr, once LV was strong enough, via a potion made of unicorn blood and snake venom.  When Crouch, Jr., under veritaserum says 'He arrived at our house near midnight.  My father answered the door.' this can't be the same midnight as the one in the prophecy unless there's a BIG OLD time shift going on somewhere.



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