Further more... (furthermore?) [Re: Book 6 forshadowing in CoS]

[Rob]

No: HPFGUIDX 113470

Neha:
> ...but it still doesn't prove that Harry is the one 
> suggested by the Prophecy; even though Harry fits all other 
> requirements of the prophecy pretty well, I still don't know if he 
> has any powers not known to Lord Voldemort- couldn't anybody else 
> have had the same innocence and purity of feeling as Harry?
>      Furthermore, Jo is hardly to follow the usual lines which she 
> has suggested; she will surely beat even Harry and Neville as the 
> killers of Voldemort; what I don't get is 'the one' suggested by 
> the prophecy can apply to a whole universe of creatures not even 
> human.


I can't think of situation where subsequent facts have contradicted 
something DD has said definitively, so I don't think we have to worry 
about who the prophecy is referring to.  In short, we can take DD's 
word for it.

But just in case you can't, try looking at it this way.  For JKR to 
introduce another agent as the actual prophecy target would be, in my 
mind, one of the worst examples of Deus Ex Machina, and quite 
frankly, I think she's too good a writer.

Rob