Why Can't Harry and LV live while the other survives?

[Steve]

No: HPFGUIDX 142252

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<easimm at y...> wrote:
>
> Snorky :
> I know what the prophesy in Book 5 says, but I don't see any reason
> why LV and Harry can't go on living their separate lives. What in 
> the books, other than The prophesy, indicates that they can't?  ...
> 
> I would greatly appreciate the favor of sticking to the books and to
> logic to find your reasons. If you want to SPEW about something else,
> please start up your own separate thread. Thanks!
> 
> Snorky


bboyminn:

Dumbledore explain it all near the end of Chapter 23. He explains that
the prophecy is important because Voldemort believes it to be
important, and as long as Voldemort sets great stock in it, then it
has /great stock/.

--- HBP; Am Ed, HB, Pg 512 --- 
"Of course you would!" cried Dumbledore. "You see, the prophecy does
not mean you have to do anything! But the prophecy caused Lord
Voldemort to mark you as his equal. ... In other words, you are free
to choose your way, quite free to turn your back on the prophecy! But
Voldemort continues to set store by the prophecy. He will continue to
hunt you . . . which makes it certain, really, that —"

"That one of us is going to end up killing the other," said Harry. "Yes." 

But he understood at last what Dumbledore had been trying to tell him.
It was, he thought, the difference between being dragged into the
arena to face a battle to the death and walking into the arena with
your head held high. Some people, perhaps, would say that there was
little to choose between the two ways, but Dumble-dore knew — and so
do I, thought Harry, with a rush of fierce pride, and so did my
parents — that there was all the difference in the world.
- - - end quote - - -


That doesn't cover it all, the conversation is quite long, but it
summurises it nicely.

In other words, the Prophecy doesn't force anybody to do anything. BUT
Voldemort's BELIEF in the prophecy does. His belief compells Voldemort
to act, and that action will plague Harry until either he or Voldemort
are dead.

Does that help the discussion at all?

Steve/bboyminn