Department of Mysteries Prophecies

[meltowne]

No: HPFGUIDX 125383


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Maria" 
<queen_amidalachic at y...> wrote:
> 
> I was reading through the Beyond the Veil chapter, ...

> Pg 692, OOTP, English Edition:
> 
> *A jet of red light had shot out of Bellatrix Lestrange's wand, but 
> Malfoy had deflected it; his spell caused hers to hit the shelf a 
> foot to the left of harry and several of the glass orbs there 
> shattered.
> 
> Two figures, pearly-white as ghosts.... began to speak; their 
voices 
> vied with each other.
> 
> "...At the solstice will come a new..." said the figure of an old 
> bearded man.
> 
> ....
> 
> "... and none will come after..." said the figure of a young woman.*

 I've read the other esponses to your post, but I think we need to 
keep in mind WHERE these orbs were before they broke.  Harry had just 
picked up his orb when he was confronted by the Death Eaters.  He had 
not departed that Aisle when Belatrix cast her spell, and the text 
notes that the orbs that were shattered were near Harry's left 
shoulder.  We don't know how the orbs are catalogued, but I would 
assume they are shelved according to the dates they were recorded.  
This would mean these were from about the same time as each other, 
maybe a few months before or after Harry's prophesy.

The question we should be asking is what happened on the Solstice 
either before Harry was born or just after his birth, maybe as late 
as when he was almost 1.

We know Dudley was born June 23, the same year as Harry.  Not exactly 
the Solstice, but very close.  What else happened on or near June 21 
or December 22 of that year or the years just before or after?