Prophecy wording

[naamagatus]

No: HPFGUIDX 128036


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "B.G." <hambtty at t...> wrote:
> 
> 
> <SNIP> 
> The Prophecy begins with "The one with the power to vanquish the 
> Dark Lord approaches.....BORN to those.......as the seventh month 
> dies (this is Neville).  The Prophecy ends with "The one with the 
> power to vanquish the Dark Lord WILL BE BORN as the Seventh month 
> dies (this is Harry).  IMHO Neville and Harry are in this together -
> they will join forces to defeat the Dark Lord.  But mid-Prophecy it 
> gets disturbing, "And either must die at the hand of the other for 
> neither can live while the other survives...."  The other is LV and 
> either/neither refer to Neville and Harry.  

<SNIP>


But that doesn't make sense grammatically (syntactically?). If the 
first line refers to one person and the last line refers to another - 
then the middle part can't refer to both of them: 
The "either", "other" and "neither" can't refer to the second one - 
since he hasn't been presented yet. On grammatical grounds alone, the 
two people to which the middle part refer must be "the one with the 
power" and "the Dark lord". 


Naama