A thought about the prophecy

[dobbyisdumbledore]

No: HPFGUIDX 97877

Hi there,

In regards to "the other" being someone that has to be 
defeated "other" than Tom Riddle and Harry, it would go along with 
something I have long thought.

I have long thought (and have seen it discussed before this) that 
Voldemort was nothing more than the longest line of Salazar Slytherin 
Possessing dark wizards through the ages.

The last dark Wizard of note (before Voldemort) was in the mid 1940s 
named Grindlewald (Sp). He was defeated by none other than Albus 
Dumbledore. Right around this same time, Tom Riddle was becoming 
Voldemort.

How difficult is it (then) to rationalze that with seeing Voldemort 
possess snakes, Quirrell and even Harry himself that he didn't take 
over a (very willing) Tom Riddle? Even the Tom Riddle in COS speaks 
of "voldemort" in the third person. Maybe that is because it is a 
third person (so to speak). 

Grundlewald (Hitler as some would point out) was just that 
generations Voldemort and the latest in a line of "vessels" holding 
the spirit of Salazar Slytherin.

Why would Voldemort (as Tom Riddle) be as adament about "pure blood" 
ancestry (when he wasn't one himself) as Slytherin?

"Tom" was used as a goading device by Dumbledore in the MOM. A means 
to enrage Voldemort. Not necessairly

One can further the theroy and suggest that Albus Dumbledore is just 
the latest vessel of Godric G. The two waging a battle from century 
to century using different instruments (people) along the way to 
fight those battles.

The secret may lie somewhere in the blood of Slytherin and Godric 
(Thus Dumbledore's gleam in his eyes of triumph when Harry relays the 
ritual in GOF) Harry is very similar to Tom, Both mud bloods, both 
orphans, we already know that they are connected... 

In as such it may very well be Harry and Tom that must defeat Salizar 
Slytherin (via defeating Voldemort).

"dobbyisdumbledore"