[HPforGrownups] Re: life and the prophecy

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No: HPFGUIDX 112013

lysandrabellargus at yahoo.co.uk writes:

> (a) if "neither can live while the other survives", what does that 
> imply? As far as we know, Harry is alive and will be until at least 
> Book 7.  Voldemort got his  body back at the end of book 4; so 
> they'll both be alive for two or three years, no?
> 


Chancie:
Has anyone ever thought that this might not nessarily be a litteral meaning 
of "lives"?  For example, when someone tells you to get a life, it doesn't mean 
that your dead and need to "get" another life.  Perhaps this means that while 
both Harry and Voldemort live both of their lives will be spent obsessing 
about the other.  Granted, Harry didn't even know about Voldemort until he was 
11, but he did know that his parents were dead (eventhough he was told it was 
because of a car crash).  He must have been wishing that he could be with them 
instead of the Dursley's.  So if you take it that way Harry has been obsessed 
with the death of his parents caused by Voldemort.  Maybe I'm just stretching, 
but who know's.  Let me know what you think. 

Chancie


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