Theory to the Prophecy

[Someone]

No: HPFGUIDX 128396

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Belle" <yoda4presdent at a...> 
wrote:
> Hello all! I'm new to this group and I just thought I'd lay out 
> a theory for you all to comment, critique, and expand on. I 
> wonder, sometimes, if Harry and Voldemort both die? Notice the 
> prophecy says one can't live while the other survives, but who's 
> to say they both can't live? I look at it this way: they exactly 
> like each other, but at the same time they're the opposite. It's 
> like an equation, they balance each other out. If you've seen the 
> Matrix, it's kind of like that. I think that in the end, Harry 
> will kill Voldemort but in doing so, kills himself. What do you 
> all think??
> 
> 
> "Belle"


John: 
Indeed, "either must die at the hand of the other" can easily be 
read as *both* "must die at the hand of the other". "Either" can 
mean "both" as much as it means, well, *either*. 

John.