FAQ poll answered... (with spoilers for said FAQ poll)

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--- In the_old_crowd at yahoogroups.com, "Barry Arrowsmith" 
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> > ...go and read it for yourselves.  Fascinating stuff, really.
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> > Particularly the revelations that if Frank or Alice had been 
ready or 
> > able to sacrifice themselves for Neville (if Voldemort had 
attacked 
> > him), then the curse would also have rebounded.  I think that 
> > probably nukes the "Lily did something specifically special" 
theory.  
> > She also talks about Voldemort intending to *murder* Harry, which 
> > seems to put the kibosh on some other ideas.
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> Nothing startling there; modern Potter theory (i.e. since OoP) 
accepts
> that charms and ancient magic were the protective agents, not 
anything
> specific to Lily. And since DD was well aware that Neville was also 
a
> possibility he would have been remiss, not to say negligent if he
> didn't protect Neville to the same extent as Harry.
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> And who is to say that if Neville had been the recipient of Voldy 
powers
> he wouldn't be as magically competent as Harry. How much of Harrys
> powers are his own, how much from Voldy?
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> I consider this to be another JKR non-answer, speculating on what
> didn't happen while very carefully refraining from telling us what
> actually did. Who knows how Neville would have turned out if Frank
> and Alice had actually died? Helpless parents are a significant 
hostage to
> fortune in a world with evilly intentioned persons in it.
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> More appositely, some of us consider the possibility that DD was at 
least 
> partly responsible for pointing Voldy in the direction of Harry, if 
so the 
> whole thing becomes moot.
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> "Kibosh on other ideas" - Possession Theory you mean?
> I can't agree. The idea is - a stroll through Harry's mind picking 
up anything
> useful, then the quiet surcease. SFAIK you can't read the mind of a 
corpse.
> If he wanted to learn of 'the power' he needed a live body.
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> Besides, in our world murder can arrive in the guise of the 
poisoned chalice, 
> the strangling cord, the bullet, the blunt instrument. 
> AK is the equivalent of the bullet.
> IMO it demonstrates limited thinking to believe that an AK is the 
sole snuffer
> of life's fluttering flame in the WW. 
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> Kneasy


Fran:
I am confused....if you are born with a power, it is inate no one 
gave it to you. So how can JRK word the prophecy like that, then turn 
around and say the baby born will get powers from LV?  So the elipses 
must add born as the 7th months dies someone is born who can open a 
door into LV's mind if LV tries to kill the someone,and this gives 
that some one the power to vanquish LV. Oh yeah ,btw, there are 2 
baby boys and neither of them can can live if the other,LV, survives.
...so all it takes is getting in LV's head.....
Yeah I know...I go away.....