Oh, The Possibilities! (Re: The prophecy - a maverick view....)

[Someone]

No: HPFGUIDX 128348

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Geoff Bannister" 
<gbannister10 at a...> wrote:
> I have tended not to post on the topic of the prophecy because, 
after 
> it came into the public domain nearly two years ago, it has been 
the 
> subject of endless discussion. Folk who have joined the group over 
> that period may not know that threads on this are rife because of 
the 
> convoluted searching system of Yahoo. Having been reading some of 
the 
> latest comments and ruminating on them, I thought I would add a 
few 
> thoughts of my own which may, or may not, be relevant...
> 
> <SNIP LOTS>
>
> To put one more ingredient into the recipe, the use of the 
> word "live". In the Macbeth prophecy, we saw that the use of the 
> word "born" was not what we expected. Coming at "live" from a 
> different angle, Jesus remarked at one point "I have come that 
they 
> may have life and have it to the full" (John 10:10). Could this 
mean 
> that, say, Harry could not live life to the full, to have a 
> satisfying and normal life while Voldemort remained and had not 
been 
> dealt with? Could this be that his life will be constricted and 
> hedged about and thus not as fulfilled as it ought to be for the 
> moment? This might be a possibility to answer the paradox of both 
> living while both also survive.
> 
> I think I've confused myself even more now
..


John:
If you want to spend a great many more happy hours confusing 
yourself even further, assume that the prophecy applies to three 
people. Assume also, and this is the confusing bit, that terms such 
as "him" and "he" and "Dark Lord" and "other" need not apply 
consistently to the one person. For instance:

"The one (Harry/Voldy/Third Person) with the power to vanquish the 
Dark Lord (Harry/Voldy/Third Person) approaches, born as the seventh 
month dies, born to those who have thrice defied him 
(Harry/Voldy/Third Person)
and the Dark Lord (Harry/Voldy/Third 
Person [need not be the same person as before!]) will mark him 
(Harry/Voldy/Third Person) as his (Harry/Voldy/Third Person) equal, 
but he (Harry/Voldy/Third Person) will have power the Dark Lord 
(Harry/Voldy/Third Person) knows not
"


and so forth. "The Dark Lord" might refer to Voldy in one case, and 
then to *someone else* when the term is later mentioned again. 


Get it??

John.