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Originally posted by MysticCat81
Maybe it's the lawyer in me, but what I picked up on was that the prophecy says that either Harry or HWMNBN will kill the other. Harry asks, "so does this mean that either he will murder me, or I must murder him?" I'm thinking, "hmmm, 'kill' and 'murder'" are not the same thing." (And I'm betting JKR knows the difference.) The question now becomes not whether Harry will kill HWMNBN, but how it will come about. And I'm betting Neville (bless him) will figure in.
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I just re-read the prophecy, and it says "and either must die at the hand of the other for neither can live while the other survives"
I had thought about the difference between murder/kill/manslaughter/etc myself (future lawyer that i'm trying to be). But the prophecy states either must die at the hand of the other, nothing about the semantaics of kill/murder.
As a side note, what version of OotP do you have?? My verison has Harry saying "that one of us has got to kill the other one"