Prophecy timeline (was Re: My Theory On The Prophecy

[potioncat]

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>   Catherine now:
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>   I pretty much agree with everything in your post,

Potioncat:
Oh good! At last someone does. (I think that makes 2 or maybe 1 1/2)

Catherine:
 except the above quote. How many couples of child-bearing years have 
defied Voldemort 3 times? It doesn't seem to be an easy thing to do, 
quite a feat, in fact,  to escape the most powerful evil-wizard of 
the day, not once, but three times!  And I don't think the Order was 
very big in the first war against Voldemort. Weren't they outnumbered 
10 to 1 by DE's? Also (IIRC) from Moody's picture of the order, the 
only 2 couple were the Potters and the Longbottoms. 


Potioncat:
The prophecy doesn't say members of the OoP. So anyone who was 
standing up against LV would be in the pool. Also, it says the boy 
will be born to someone who has defied him three times. So some of 
the couples may not have reached the third time for several more 
months.

It isn't clear what "defied" means. I would  think since James and 
Lily were in the Order, they would have confronted the LV gang more 
than three times. But OK, maybe it's not a big pool, but it would be 
more than just the Longbottoms and the Potters.

So, maybe it could have been the Bones family, or the Prewetts,(if 
either of the brothers were married) or any number of others. Maybe 
LV began counting out the expected date when he found out the Malfoys 
were expecting. He may have been looking at his own Dark Wizard 
followers.