"either must die at the hands of the other, for neither can live while the other survives"
how can that be?
Harry lived for 17 years before Voldemort finally died. Moreover, he lived 3 years while Voldemort had his body.
So , there's no physical reason why they couldn't co-exist in the same world.
Thus, I have to conclude that their co-existance can't mean "in the real world".
the only other plausible "place" where they can't live together is Harry's body.
Harry can't really live his life (fully free) untill Voldemort's soul fragment is expelled from his body.
And Voldemort can't really live in Harry's body ( his soul fragment ) while Harry's soul is still there.
So, basically, the prophacy wasn't about the destruction of the evil of Voldemort, but about the fight over Harry's body.
Otherwise, nothing that happend doesn't make sense.
The reason that it became so important , isn't because it predicted anything of importance to anyone but Harry , but because everyone who heard it ( Snape , Dumbledore and eventually Harry) thought it meant much more than it really does.
Pygmalion Effect in it's finest , and this , on top of the self fulfiling paradox of Voldemort not knowing the full extent of the prophacy and therfore actually fulfiling it.
As i said, I was just thinking...
If anyone has anything to say, please.
I don't think there's a need to explain it that way. The prophecy means that eventually one is going to have to kill the other, not that they can't coexist at all.
The prophecy was made before Harry was born, and Harry and Voldemort coexisted for a while until Voldemort tried to kill him, and during that time there was no fragment of Voldemort's soul in Harry's body.
Voldemort didn't know the full extent of the prophecy anyway, he didn't realize that it was the power of love that kept Harry alive and eventually enabled Harry to defeat him. Otherwise he would have been more careful (or perhaps not, since he always underestimated that power). _________________ "The best of us must sometimes eat our words." -- Albus Dumbledore
you do have a point.
and it's exactly what i thought while i was reading the book.
The reason I began thinking along these lines was that Rowling stated in one of her interviews that she worked out the wording of the prophecy very carefully.
Maybe I'm overestimating her insights, but if you take a close look at the actual phrasing ( which she said to have done very carefully ) you'll see that having Harry and Voldemort kill each other eventually just isn't in there.
Perhaps I'm being overly petty regarding this, and probabaly it's not what Rowling had in mind... but , still, fundumentally , this interpertation can be true, can't it?
I'm pretty sure that Dumbledore said somewhere in one of the books that the meaning was simply that neither of them would stop until the other was dead. It was more of an emotional reason why they couldn't coexist together. Voldemort wanted Harry dead, and he would stop at nothing to make that happen. Because Voldemort wouldn't stop until he killed Harry, in turn Harry had to kill Voldemort in order to survive. _________________ "Enter, stranger, but take heed
Of what awaits the sin of greed,
For those who take, but do not earn
Must pay most dearly in their turn."
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