The Prophecy, 'mark as his equal' (was Re: Lily being spared)

[June Ewing]

Pippin:
> The prophecy is given in OOP and you are correct that Dumbledore
interprets it as referring either to Harry or Neville. But it only
says that the one will have the power -- whether the one with the
power or the Dark Lord will die at the hand of the other is not
predicted.

As Dumbledore points out in HBP, even without the prophecy,
Voldemort must know as all tyrants do that eventually he will make
an enemy powerful enough to destroy him. Voldemort helped make
Harry into that person by trying to destroy him, but the prophecy
does not guarantee that if he had gone after Neville it would have
had the same effect on him. <snip> <


June:
You are right it is The Order of the Phoenix, but that is what
happens when you read all the books so many times you can almost
recite them, they start to run in together and you can't remember
which is which lol. There are two things to remember here: 1) The
prophecy did state that Voldemort would mark his equal himself
(Harry's scar). 2) The prophecy would not have come true if Snape
had not heard part of it and reported to Voldemort.  Had Snape not
heard it then all would have gone on as normal and there would not
have been a boy who lived, or later a chosen one. The bottom line
is that it is Voldemort's own fault that it came true and he made
the choice to choose Harry. He had to have thought there would be
something extra special about the Potters' son.










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