The prophecy - a maverick view....

[Geoff Bannister]

No: HPFGUIDX 128464

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "M.Clifford" <Aisbelmon at h...> 
wrote:

Valky:
> Having the opinion that you are not quite 'so of little brain' 
Geoff I
> would say you probably have a pretty good idea what I am saying here
> and that this is not the part that you really wanted me to explain.
> But in case I am too deprived of sleep some 50 hours since I last 
woke
> up and am assuming irrationally, what I meant here is pretty much, I
> think, a simple agreement with what you had said before but with my
> own flavour added. In your original post you said that the prophecy
> seemed to contradict the facts, and that the words of the prophecy
> implied by 'neither can live while the other survives' that neither 
is
> alive and that one of these two is quite possibly dead. I expanded 
on
> this with the word Irony because I wondered if "The Boy who *Lived*"
> was an ironic misdirection by JKR placed in plain view at the
> beginning of the series. 


Geoff:

What I actually said was:
'But then we reach "and either must die at the hand of the other for
neither can live while the other survives". This to me is a
contradiction in terms. Both Harry and Voldemort are alive. This
contradicts the prophecy; one of them should be dead and one should
be surviving
. So what do we make of this? '

I did /not/ imply the interpretation which you put on that - I merely 
wondered what we are to make of this apparent contradiction.

I had not latched onto the hypothesis which you were putting forward. 
This is why I asked for your clarification which you have now kindly 
provided.It is obvious that our thoughts were not running in parallel 
hence my confusion about your comments.