Prophecy wording prophecy wording - why repeat it it?

Geoff Bannister gbannister10 at aol.com
Wed Apr 27 06:50:59 UTC 2005


No: HPFGUIDX 128125


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Donna" <donnawonna at w...> wrote:
> 
> Geoff Bannister <gbannister10 at a...> wrote:
> > '"The odd thing, Harry" he (Dumbledore) said softly, "is that 
> > it may not have meant you at all. <snip quote>
> >
> > "But then... but then, why was it my name on the prophecy and 
> > not Neville's?"
> >
> > "The official record was re-labelled after Voldemort's attack 
> > on you as a child," said Dumbledore. 

Donna:> The official record was "re-labelled after Voldemort's 
attack...."?
> I wonder what the original label read.
> 

Geoff:
My guess, for what it's worth:

S.P.T. to A.P.W.B.D.
Dark Lord and ?

The labelling (quoted in OOTP "The Department of Mysteries" p.688 UK 
edition) could just have been changed with a stroke of the pen. The 
original date was apparently still there.







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