The Prophecy

[ronnie]

No: HPFGUIDX 142215

sweety12783 wrote:

> "and the Dark Lord will mark him as his equal, but he will have 
> power the Dark Lord knows not . . . and either must die at the 
> hand of the other for neither can live while the other 
> survives . . ."  I think that the statement means that the one 
> marked as an equal will have to die by the hand of the other in 
> order for LV to be fully mortal (hence "... for neither can live 
> while the other survives...) 


Expectopatronnie:

I'm not sure Harry has to die inorder to kill VM. I don't know where 
I've read this, but someone said somewhere that "neither can live 
while the other survives" means that right now, neither Harry nor VM 
are living to a full extent. They are both only surviving - keeping 
their heads over the water - but that's not living! One of the two 
(either) will have to die (must die)... in order for the other to 
start living again (both stopped fully living when VM marked Harry 
back in 1981). 


Sweety12783 also wrote:

> It also explains why Dumbledore told Harry to tell Ron and 
> Hermione about what was going on.  DD knew that Ron and Hermione 
> would not let Harry do this mission by himself but most 
> importantly he knew that if they were to figure out what had to be 
> done and harry sacrifed himself and be killed by LV (making LV 
> fully mortal) then the remaining two could continue and AK 
> Voldemort since Harry will not be able to.


Expectopatronnie:

I really doubt that: If DD knows Harry will have to be sacrificed in 
order to kill VM, then he could have killed VM while possessing 
Harry at the MoM in OotP.  


Sweety12783:

> Why did DD have a look of triumph when Harry told him about LV 
> taking his blood for the potion in GOF.

Expectopatronnie:

I thought it was because of the blood full of love which will weaken 
VM. But now I really don't know: If VM has blood from Harry, how 
come he couldn't bear possessing Harry in OotP?

E.