Neville and the Prophecy (was The Longbottoms-a theory)

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No: HPFGUIDX 102750

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "probonoprobono" 
<probono at r...> wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Christy" 
<christyj2323 at y...> 
> wrote:
> > probono:
> > 
> > "We" know Voldemort chose Harry and therefore Harry is 
> > > the one who has the power to defeat him, but does Voldemort 
know 
> > > this? What I am asking is if he still considers Neville a 
> threat. 
> > > He's shown no signs of pursuing Neville (that we know of), but 
> if he 
> > > doesn't know this part of the prophecy, why ignore Neville?
> > > 
> > > Maybe this was cleared up at the end, but I don't remember. 
Can 
> > > anyone else recall?
> > 
> > Christy:
> > 
> > Isn't that the reason that Voldemort lures Harry into the MoM to 
> begin
> > with? To hear the WHOLE prophesy?
> > 
> > pg. 843 OotP
> > 
> > "Of course, I had not dreamed, when I set out to meet Sibyll
> > Trelawney, that I would hear anything worth overhearing. My -- 
> our --
> > one stroke of good fortune was that the eavesdropper was 
detected 
> only
> > a short way into the prophecy and thrown from the building.
> > 
> > So he only heard...?
> > 
> > He heard only the first part, the part fortelling the birth of a 
> boy
> > in July to parents who had thrice defied Voldemort." 
> > 
> > Harry gets the prophecy, Voldemort takes it and listens to it, 
and
> > finally hears what he needs to (or what he thinks he needs to) 
> hear to
> > defeat Harry.
> 
> Probono: Thanks Christy, just what I was thinking. So, in all 
> fairness Voldemort should be just as concerned with eliminating 
> Neville as he is with Harry. Though, admittedly his biff with 
Harry 
> is a bit more personal. That makes Neville far more vulnerable 
then 
> I ever suspected. Very interesting.

BUt VOldemort did not hear the whole prophecy.  The orb was 
destroyed in the fight and no one heard it, including Harry and 
Nevile.  DD told Harry the prophecy.  (Sorry, but am at work and do 
not have my book to provide canon)

Julie