Did JKR cheat with the prophecy?

[doddiemoemoe]

No: HPFGUIDX 124869


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "lupinlore" <bob.oliver at c...> 
wrote:
> 
> It seems to me that a strong case can be made that JKR has cheated
> rather badly by introducing the prophecy as worded in OOTP.  

Doddiemoemoe here:

I agree with you on this point..The prophecy is/was carefully worded 
because nothing can tie up a loose end like a prophecy..hence we as 
readers are irritated and preturbed by it.  It also opens up doors 
to hundreds, if not thousands of interpretations.  We now know that 
JKR can end her novels as she chooses and she is under no scrutiny 
due to her prophecy..**heavy sigh**.

If any of us has heard or read or seen a play about Oedipus  or 
Olecranon..etc..then we all know however our own interpretations of 
any prophecy were..none of us ever predicted quite correctly...

So YES!! OF COURSE!!!  JK cheated horribly with the prophecy...The 
only way in that JK wouldn't cheat with the prophecy is if she 
wouldn't have left it until the fifth book...

IMHO if there was anything that needed telling in the fifth book was 
that in the COS Tom Riddle would have at least told Harry about it 
then..at least part of it...TR's questions/suppositions lead us NOW 
to question this..

Atter considering this I don't wondner if it is Lucious that was 
thrown out of the hogshead that day...(unless it was wormtail and he 
heard/knew something we don't....)


For me personally...The way the prophecies read...we cannot know if 
the "dark lord"...is Voldemort...or Pettigrew...or Lupin(if we 
choose to believe eseLupin theories)...

A dark lord during the dark ages is quite a great deal different 
from a dark lord we would consider today.... 

Hence, YES!!! JKR did cheat with the prophecy...

If we question whether or not Harry is "the one with the 
power"....then we must question if Voldemort is the dark lord...or 
if someone else is... (what if Harry has to vanquish DD?)

Doddiemoemoe