[HPforGrownups] Re: The Effect of the Prophecy

[Janette]

No: HPFGUIDX 169170

Charmed Force wrote:
>
> > > The second part:
> > > "and either must die at the hand of the other for neither can live
> > > while the other survives...the one with the power to vanquish the
> > > Dark Lord will be born as the seventh month dies."
> >
> >
> > montims:
> > I think the controversy arises because it isn't clear who
> > "either...other" and "neither...either" are...  LV has evidently
> > skewed the prophecy by taking action, but the original meaning is
> > amiguous...
> >
>
> But it doesn't seem that ambiguous to me. Either the one with the
> power or the dark lord must die at the hand of the other, meaning one
> of them has to kill the other one. Neither the dark lord nor the one
> with the power can live while the other survives.


montims:
Snape must die at the hand of Remus?  Neville must die at the hand of LV?
JKR says she wrote the prophecy very carefully.  It doesn't follow that
"neither" and "either" and "other" are the Dark Lord and Harry, just because
the preceding and succeeding lines may be.


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