Prophecy wording

[Kathryn Jones]

No: HPFGUIDX 128046


greatelderone wrote:
> GEO: It's just common repetition that we see in all of 
> Trelawney's prophecies.
>
> IT WILL HAPPEN TONIGHT. THE DARK LORD LIES ALONE AND FRIENDLESS,
> ABANDONED BY HIS FOLLOWERS. HIS SERVANT HAS BEEN CHAINED THESE
> TWELVE YEARS.
>
> TONIGHT, BEFORE MIDNIGHT... THE SERVANT WILL BREAK
> FREE AND SET OUT TO REJOIN HIS MASTER.
>
> THE DARK LORD WILL RISE AGAIN WITH HIS SERVANTS AID, GREATER AND
> MORE TERRIBLE THAN EVER HE WAS.
>
> By your reasoning perhaps there was another servant that set out
> that day in PoA to rejoin Voldemort.


Kathy Writes:

As far as that goes, Sirius was "chained for twelve years" and 
broke free, possibly to join his master (if he was the spy) as 
well as Peter who "set out to rejoin his master".  JKR loves 
setting up pairs or more.  When Voldemort said that his most 
trusted servant was at Hogwarts, there was Crouch/Moody, and 
Sirius, sitting in the pumpkin patch, and Snape.  Could be any 
one of them. 
                                                                                                                                          
KJ