The Prophecy

[Tonks]

No: HPFGUIDX 174984

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Bart Lidofsky <bartl at ...> 
wrote:
>
> JKR claims that she worded the prophecy VERY carefully.
> 
> Well, I'm still scratching my head over it. Specifically, "and 
either must die at the hand of the other for neither can live while 
the other survives..." Well, clearly, they both lived for several 
years while the other survived. And one did NOT die at the hand of 
the other; Morty kept offing himself until it took. All he needed 
was antlers, a squirrel, a hat, and "This time for sure!" before 
casting YAAK. 
> 
> So, can anybody here, who actually understands the prophecy, 
explain it to me?
> 
> Bart
>

Tonks:
Intuitively it seems to me that another way to look at this is by 
looking at what LV and Harry symbolize.

‘He will mark him as his equal..’ Remember the part about the 
brother who owned the invisibility cloak?  He took the clock off and 
walked with death ‘as an equal’.  

LV as a symbol of Death can not live fully… that is he can not win 
the battle as long as someone is still alive. On the other hand 
Harry representing humankind can not live (meaning live forever) as 
long as death exist. There is a balance between them. Death is only 
defeated by the sacrifice of Love. By being willing to die Harry has 
won what LV tried to have. As Hermione tells us in the graveyard at 
GH, it is not the type of victory over death that LV envisioned, it 
is of another type. It is a Christ type victory. Death is now 
defeated and Harry has eternal life. Not life on earth forever, but 
eternal life in the spiritual sense.

Tonks_op