VA/H=Mx13+RP? Snape's Culpability?

[Ceridwen]

No: HPFGUIDX 147288

Sherrie: 
> Why the SON of a waiter?  The part of the prophecy that Snape 
heard,  IIRC (I 
> don't have that book to hand) isn't gender-specific - it could just 
as  
> easily have applied to a daughter as a son of that snooty waiter.  
Maybe  Voldemort 
> did get it wrong - maybe the one with the power to vanquish him is  
really 
> Lavender Brown, and Harry is really the ultimate red herring.

Ceridwen:
Love it!  Harry, the ultimate Red Herring.  If the prophecy child was 
a female, though, I would plump for Susan Bones.  LV has killed some 
members of her family already, presumably they too have defied him.

I was wondering why everyone, not just LV, thought the prophecy child 
was a boy.  Even Dumbledore thought so.  Then I remembered, the 
prophecy specifically gives the child a gender:
"And the Dark Lord will mark *him* as his equal, but *he* will have 
power the Dark Lord knows not..."  http://www.hp-
lexicon.org/wizards/voldemort.html

So, while Lavender or Susan would be a real kicker for the prophecy 
child, the prophecy itself specifies a boy.  Too bad!  I sort-of like 
RedHerring!Harry.

Ceridwen.