Prophecy wording prophecy wording - why repeat it it? How to contain it?

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No: HPFGUIDX 128171


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Ravenclaw Bookworm" 
<navarro198 at h...> wrote:
> 
> Kathy writes:
> I have a question. How can the Keeper of Prophecies just decide
> what a prophecy means, or who it affects, on his own and just
> change the prophecy orb to relate to a specific person? Does the
> Wizengamot make the decision? Could he have made a mistake?????
> 
> Angie replies (in trembling whisper, bracelets a-jangle):

Ah, my dear, you must have the Inner Eye -- I've been on Prophecy 
kick the last few days and I've wondered this myself. :)

Ater all, it was Lucius Malfoy, not DD, who told Harry that only a 
person whom the prophecy is "about" can retrieve it from the DOM -- 
but what if whoever "interpreted" the prophesy gets wrong?

For example, what if Neville was really the one the prophesy was 
about; could he have retrieved it, even though his name wasn't on 
it?  Was Harry able to retrieve it because he is the one it 
was "about" or because his name was on it?