Dept. of Mysteries Prophecies - Row 97=1997

[Geoff Bannister]

No: HPFGUIDX 125425


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Steve" <bboyminn at y...> wrote:

bboyminn:
> Well, I will admit it is an odd coincidence that the Prophecy is in
> Row 97, and that may have some significants, but oddly, I don't 
think
> it's significant significants. 
> 
> It may coincide with the year of the beginning of the seventh school
> year ('97-'98), and the seventh and final book, and the year in 
which
> Harry turns 17 becoming an adult in the wizard world, and she may 
have
> picked that particular row as symbolic of all these things, but I
> think that's as far as it goes. 

Geoff:
I tend to agree with Steve that the row number has little or no 
significance.

>From our point of view as readers (and eavesdroppers on the Wizarding 
World), we know that Jo Rowling intends her chronicle of Harry's 
doings to extend over his time at Hogwarts; hence, we are 
anticipating that the confrontation between Voldermort and Harry will 
reach its climax within that time frame and probably during Harry's 
last year at the school.

But - and it's a significant but - from the Wizarding World's point 
of view, the confrontation could have taken place any time after 31st 
July 1980. We know that Voldemort tried to achieve that outcome very 
quickly and failed disastrously. At intervals, he has re-emerged in 
one form or another to try to deal with his nemesis - and so far 
still proving to be unsuccessful. So I believe that row 97 might be 
another of JKR's red fish or possibly she just dropped on 97 as being 
a nice sounding number to use.

Time will tell.