LV not fulfulling the terms of the prophecy? (long)

[greatelderone]

No: HPFGUIDX 128287

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "gelite67" <gelite67 at y...>
wrote:
> Angie:
> I think we must assume he struck Harry first b/c presumably 
Neville 
> would be dead if Voldy had reached him first.  I think DD is 
> overreaching or misspeaking in stating that DD "chose" Harry b/c 
he 
> thought Harry was the greater threat to him, etc.  

GEO: JKR agrees with Dumbledore on the matter so I for one have 
choice, but to believe that Dumbledore was right on this little 
issue 
besides we know Voldemort wasn't looking for the Longbottoms since 
DD's spy within the Death Eaters had told him that Voldemort was 
specifically looking for the Potters which is why they went into 
hiding in the first place. 

JK Rowling's World Book Day Chat, 
March 4, 2004 
book: Why did Voldemort pick Harry and not Neville?
JK Rowling replies -> Dumbledore explains this in 'Order of the 
Phoenix'. Voldemort identified more with the half-blood boy and 
therefore decided he must be the greater risk.
http://www.quick-quote-quill.org/articles/2004/0304-wbd.htm

> Angie:
> 
>  Just because DD knows MORE about what's going on than anyone 
else, 
> doesn't mean he knows everything or even that what he thinks he 
knows 
> and understands is accurate.  Why can DD not make mistakes of 
facts 
> like any other character? 

GEO: Because anytime when it's Dumbledore or Hermione giving us the 
facts, it's Rowling feeding information directly to her readers. 

Mzimba, Lizo, moderator. Interview with Steve Kloves and J.K.
Rowling, 
February 2003.
JKR: Absolutely right, I find that all the time in the book, if you 
need to tell your readers something just put it in her. There are
only 
two characters that you can put it convincingly into their dialogue. 
One is Hermione, the other is Dumbledore. In both cases you accept, 
it's plausible that they have, well Dumbledore knows pretty much 
everything anyway, but that Hermione has read it somewhere. So, 
she's 
handy....

Lizo: Does Dumbledore speak for you?

JKR: Oh yes, very much so. Dumbledore often speaks for me.
http://www.quick-quote-quill.org/articles/2003/0302-newsround-
mzimba.htm

>  It just seems to me that if if JKR's characters, 
> including DD, didn't make mistakes of fact, they wouldn't be human.

GEO: Dumbledore has already been proven to be fallible and extremely 
human due to his mistakes regarding Sirius, Snape and Harry and 
frankly the mistakes in judgement are usually the ones that are the 
worst.