He marked him with a lightning-bolt scar and did not kill him, but gave Harry powers, and a future, which would enable Harry to escape Voldemort four times, something neither Harry's parents nor Neville's parents ever achieved. Voldemort chose Harry as he believed Harry was the most danger to him and he saw himself in Harry before even seeing him. However, Voldemort chose Harry as his target, who was, like himself, a half-blood, rather than the pure-blooded boy named Neville. Voldemort learned that there were two boys that met the requirements of the prophecy: Aside from Harry Potter, the other was Neville Longbottom, who was born on 30 July, 1980, to a pair of Aurors who, like James and Lily Potter, had directly defied Voldemort on three separate occasions. This is the weapon he has been seeking so assiduously since his return: the knowledge of how to destroy you." - Discussion of Voldemort and the prophecy Īs Snape was apprehended by Aberforth Dumbledore before the full prophecy could be made, only part of the prophecy was reported to Voldemort. And so, since his return to his body, and particularly since your extraordinary escape from him last year, he has been determined to hear that prophecy in its entirety. He discovered, to his cost, that he was mistaken, when the curse intended to kill you backfired. He set out to kill you when you were still a baby, believing he was fulfilling the terms of the prophecy. He knew the prophecy had been made, though he did not know its full contents. " Voldemort tried to kill you when you were a child because of a prophecy made shortly before your birth. Snape then returned to Voldemort to tell him what he had heard. Severus Snape, who at the time was working for Voldemort, was caught eavesdropping on Trelawney and Dumbledore by the owner of the Hog's Head and was subsequently thrown out of the pub. They were the following: it was a boy, he is born in the closing days of July of 1980 (the year that the prophecy was made), his parents had defied Voldemort three times and lived to tell about it, he would have a power that Voldemort was unable or unwilling to comprehend, and if more than one person was born that met the requirements, Voldemort himself would choose to whom it would ultimately refer. During the prophecy, Trelawney specified that the requirements for the boy of the prophecy who was capable of (but not necessarily would be) defeating the Dark Lord. Dumbledore, who was disappointed at the performance she gave during the interview, was about to leave when she went into a trance and made the prophecy. The prophecy was made while Trelawney was having an interview with Dumbledore for the post of Divination teacher at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. The prophecy in question made to Albus Dumbledore by Sybill Trelawney had foretold the coming of a boy who would have the power to vanquish Lord Voldemort. Sybill Trelawney, the seer who foretold the prophecy I had gone there to see an applicant for the post of Divination teacher." - Albus Dumbledore recalling the night the prophecy was made On a cold, wet night sixteen years ago, in a room above the bar at the Hog's Head Inn. But the prophecy was made to somebody, and that person has the means of recalling it perfectly." Harry Potter: " Who heard it?" Albus Dumbledore: " I did. It is referenced at the end of the Second Wizarding War, as public knowledge and named "The Big One", in respect of the prophecy and the sequenced events from it.Īlbus Dumbledore: " The thing that smashed was merely the record of the prophecy kept by the Department of Mysteries. It referred to a boy who would be born at the end of July in 1980, who had the power to defeat Lord Voldemort (which Voldemort took to mean Harry Potter). Sybill Trelawney's first prophecy, also known as the Lost Prophecy or simply The Prophecy, refers to the prophecy made by Sybill Trelawney to Albus Dumbledore at the Hog's Head Pub early in 1980. The prophecy that altered Harry's life forever the one with the power to vanquish the Dark Lord will be born as the seventh month dies." - Sybill Trelawney's prophecy made to Albus Dumbledore and either must die at the hand of the other for neither can live while the other survives. and the Dark Lord will mark him as his equal, but he will have power the Dark Lord knows not. born to those who have thrice defied him, born as the seventh month dies. " The one with the power to vanquish the Dark Lord approaches.
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