All 50 Uses of
prophecy
in
Harry Potter (#6) and the Half-Blood Prince
- Where were you a few weeks ago when we battled to retrieve the prophecy for the Dark Lord?†
Chpt 2 *
- He got himself captured, along with how many others, and failed to retrieve the prophecy into the bargain.†
Chpt 2
- He failed to hear the prophecy.†
Chpt 2
- Nevertheless, highly placed sources within the Ministry have confirmed that the disturbance centered on the fabled Hall of Prophecy.†
Chpt 3
- Though Ministry spokeswizards have hitherto refused even to confirm the existence of such a place, a growing number of the Wizarding community believe that the Death Eaters now serving sentences in Azkaban for trespass and attempted theft were attempting to steal a prophecy.†
Chpt 3
- The nature of that prophecy is unknown, although speculation is rife that it concerns Harry Potter, the only person ever known to have survived the Killing Curse, and who is also known to have been at the Ministry on the night in question.†
Chpt 3
- Some are going so far as to call Potter "the Chosen One," believing that the prophecy names him as the only one who will be able to rid us of He-WhoMust-No t-Be-Named.†
Chpt 3
- The current whereabouts of the prophecy, if it exists, are unknown, although{ctd. page2, column 5) A second newspaper lay beside die first.†
Chpt 3
- Then you will have seen that there have been not so much leaks as floods concerning your adventure in the Hall of Prophecy?†
Chpt 4
- There are only two people in the whole world who know the full contents of the prophecy made about you and Lord Voldemort, and they are both standing in this smelly, spidery broom shed.†
Chpt 4
- It is true, however, that many have guessed, correctly, that Voldemort sent his Death Eaters to steal a prophecy, and that the prophecy concerned you.†
Chpt 4
- It is true, however, that many have guessed, correctly, that Voldemort sent his Death Eaters to steal a prophecy, and that the prophecy concerned you.†
Chpt 4
- Now, I think I am correct in saying that you have not told anybody that you know what the prophecy said?†
Chpt 4
- He fixed his eyes on his fork, which was gleaming in the sunlight streaming into his lap, and said, "I don't know exactly why he's going to be giving me lessons, but I think it must be because of the prophecy."†
Chpt 5
- That glass ball that smashed wasn't the only record of the prophecy.†
Chpt 5
- I heard the whole thing in Dumbledore's office, he was the one the prophecy was made to, so he could tell me.†
Chpt 5
- "We wondered, after we got back from the Ministry… Obviously, we didn't want to say anything to you, but from what Lucius Malfoy said about the prophecy, how it was about you and Voldemort, well, we thought it might be something like this… Oh, Harry…"†
Chpt 5
- "When we heard Dumbledore was collecting you in person, we thought he might be telling you something or showing you something to do with the prophecy," said Ron eagerly.†
Chpt 5
- Moreover, it had seemed the right destiny for him since he had heard the prophecy a few weeks ago… Neither can live while the other survives…Wouldn't he be living up to the prophecy, and giving himself the best chance of survival, if he joined those highly trained wizards whose job it was to find and kill Voldemort?†
Chpt 5
- Moreover, it had seemed the right destiny for him since he had heard the prophecy a few weeks ago… Neither can live while the other survives…Wouldn't he be living up to the prophecy, and giving himself the best chance of survival, if he joined those highly trained wizards whose job it was to find and kill Voldemort?†
Chpt 5
- The prophecy could have referred to either of them, yet, for his own inscrutable reasons, Voldemort had chosen to believe that Harry was the one meant.†
Chpt 7
- Had Voldemort chosen Neville, it would be Neville sitting opposite Harry bearing the lightning-shaped scar and the weight of the prophecy… Or would it?†
Chpt 7
- But the rest of the stories … so sensational, of course, one doesn't know quite what to believe … this fabled prophecy, for instance …"†
Chpt 7
- "We never heard a prophecy," said Neville, turning geranium pink as he said it.†
Chpt 7
- "Sir," said Harry tentatively, "does what you're going to tell me have anything to do with the prophecy?†
Chpt 10
- "It has a very great deal to do with the prophecy," said Dumbledore, as casually as if Harry had asked him about the next days weather, "and I certainly hope that it will help you to survive."†
Chpt 10
- And it… it's got something to do with the prophecy?†
Chpt 10
- It has everything to do with the prophecy.†
Chpt 10
- Dumbledore had said that the lessons were leading to something to do with the prophecy; Harry had felt bolstered, comforted, and now he felt slightly abandoned.†
Chpt 12
- "Well, of course, we both know how these stories get distorted … all these whispers of a prophecy …. of you being 'the Chosen One'…."†
Chpt 16
- She does not know — and I think it would be unwise to enlighten her — that she made the prophecy about you and Voldemort, you see.†
Chpt 20
- He believed that in killing you, he was destroying the danger the prophecy had outlined.†
Chpt 23
- "So, when the prophecy says that I'll have 'power the Dark Lord knows not,' it just means — love?" asked Harry, feeling a little let down.†
Chpt 23
- But Harry, never forget that what the prophecy says is only significant because Voldemort made it so.†
Chpt 23
- Pointing at Harry with his black, withered hand, he said, "You are setting too much store by the prophecy!"†
Chpt 23
- "But," spluttered Harry, "but you said the prophecy means —" "If Voldemort had never heard of the prophecy, would it have been fulfilled?†
Chpt 23
- "If Voldemort had never heard of the prophecy, would it have been fulfilled?†
Chpt 23
- Ho you think every prophecy in the Hall of Prophecy has been fulfilled?†
Chpt 23
- Ho you think every prophecy in the Hall of Prophecy has been fulfilled?†
Chpt 23
- He heard the prophecy and he leapt into ac-tion, with the result that he not only handpicked the man most likely to finish him, he handed him uniquely deadly weapons!†
Chpt 23
- But not because of the prophecy!†
Chpt 23
- Imagine, please, just for a moment, that you had never heard that prophecy!†
Chpt 23
- You see, the prophecy does not mean you have to do anything!†
Chpt 23
- But the prophecy caused Lord Voldemort to mark you as his equal.†
Chpt 23
- … In other words, you are free to choose your way, quite free to turn your back on the prophecy!†
Chpt 23
- But Voldemort continues to set store by the prophecy.†
Chpt 23
- And now Harry was paying attention properly for the first time, for he knew what had happened then: Professor Trelawney had made the prophecy that had altered the course of his whole life, the prophecy about him and Voldemort.†
Chpt 25
- And now Harry was paying attention properly for the first time, for he knew what had happened then: Professor Trelawney had made the prophecy that had altered the course of his whole life, the prophecy about him and Voldemort.†
Chpt 25
- Harry was standing stock-still as waves of shock crashed over him, wave after wave, obliterating every-thing except the information that had been kept from him for so long … It was Snape who had overheard the prophecy.†
Chpt 25
- It was Snape who had carried the news of the prophecy to Voldemort.†
Chpt 25
Definition:
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(prophecy) a prediction of the future (usually said to be obtained in a supernatural way)