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Did Voldemort mark Harry as his equal?
You are assuming the act of "marking Harry as his equal" has to be intentional, when in fact the point is that Voldemort did mark Harry as his equal, but unintentionally.
Consider this: when ...
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Why does the Department of Mysteries keep prophecies?
Because they study mysterious stuff.
The Department of Mysteries is all about studying and unravelling the deepest and most inscrutable mysteries of magic and the universe. Prophecies count as ...
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Can a squib or a muggle be a seer?
No
Divination is a branch of magic. Therefore requires magical ability to use it.
Professor Trelawney delicately rearranged her shawl and continued, ‘So you have chosen to study Divination, the most ...
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Why didn't they mend Potter's prophecy with the Repairing Charm?
It wouldn’t help - the prophecy escaped when the ball broke.
It might have been possible to mend the glass sphere that encased the prophecy, but the reason the Dark Lord wanted it was for the prophecy ...
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What are all the prophecies in The Lord of the Rings?
I'm going to have a stab, although I make no promises about completeness. All the below prophecies were made at times of stress and all came true.
Hobbit: none that I can recall
LOTR: Boromir's dream, ...
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Did Voldemort mark Harry as his equal?
I believe the premise of the question is incorrect. It could not have been necessary for Voldemort to intend to mark Harry as his equal, because Voldemort did not even know that part of the prophecy:
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What are all the prophecies in The Lord of the Rings?
How about Gandalf talking to Frodo about Gollum:
Frodo: "It's a pity Bilbo didn't kill Gollum when he had the chance."
Gandalf: "Pity? It's a pity that stayed Bilbo's hand. Many that ...
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Did Voldemort mark Harry as his equal?
He unintentionally ‘marked’ Harry by going after him, not Neville.
The Dark Lord didn’t intentionally mark Harry as his equal. He did it by singling Harry out, although there were two boys who fit the ...
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Is the supposedly fake prophecy of Mahdi that the Bene Gesserit implanted on Arrakis actually a real prophecy?
It feels like you're mixing up the concepts of Mahdi and Kwisatz Haderach here. I don't think they're necessarily in any way related.
The Mahdi concept just seems to be a generic Messiah-like figure. ...
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Why does the Department of Mysteries keep prophecies?
On top of Rand al'Thor's answer, think about why a library (in the real world) keeps a copy of every book ever printed, and often a copy of every local or national newspaper, rather than just relevant ...
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What are all the prophecies in The Lord of the Rings?
Here are some prophecies not yet mentioned.
Predictor: Thorin Maybe it's more of a wish than a prophecy, but in The Hobbit, in A Warm Welcome: Status: fulfilled, basically
But lock nor bar may hinder ...
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Was this prophecy in Game Of Thrones false?
The prophecy came true but the valonqar (brother killing her) was never a part of the prophecy in the show. In the show Cersei is only meant to be cast down by someone younger and more beautiful... ...
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Why does the Department of Mysteries keep prophecies?
This is actually bigger than, "They study Mysterious stuff", and while that is an acceptable answer, I don't think it is the whole answer.
Realize that these people are wizards, and while we are ...
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How many times in the Harry Potter books did 13 people dine together?
Thirteen people were together at the Burrow after the Battle of the Seven Potters over Little Whinging. Several of them participated in the Battle of Hogwarts, and four of them were killed in that ...
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Why didn't Voldemort use Legilimency further to actually hear the prophecy in Harry's head?
I may be completely misunderstanding the question, but as far as I can tell, the scene you are describing happens before Harry himself knows what the prophecy says. He learns that from Dumbledore a ...
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Did Voldemort mark Harry as his equal?
'Mark' in this context does not mean the scar, it means:
to distinguish (someone or something) from other people or things
The same as 'set apart', 'separate', 'single out', 'differentiate', or '...
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Why didn't they mend Potter's prophecy with the Repairing Charm?
Bellatrix's answer is correct, but I also wanted to add a more technical aspect - if an object in need of repair is magical, damaged very badly (i.e. it looks "beyond repair") or is very complex (like ...
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Can prophecies be studied?
The Keeper of the Hall of Prophecy can presumably raise and lower the defensive spells.
There is one person who's in charge of the Hall of Prophecy. (They may have a team of helpers but this isn't ...
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Would Neville Longbottom Have Survived If Voldemort Had Marked Neville For Death Rather Than Harry?
I think you're all forgetting a very important thing. The only reason why Harry survived while all the others didn't is because Severus asked Voldemort for Lily to be spared. Voldemort asked Lily ...
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Is the supposedly fake prophecy of Mahdi that the Bene Gesserit implanted on Arrakis actually a real prophecy?
Kwisatz Haderach is the exclusive BG objective. However, Lady Jessica encounters subtle hints of that legend almost immediately after arrival.
Mahdi is a Zensunni concept, one that Fremen brought with ...
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How did the wizarding world find out what the prophecy said?
They Didn't, At Least Not For Sure
Enough leaks sprung from the Ministry that the fight between the DA and Death Eaters centered on the Hall of Prophecy, and it was well known that both Harry and ...
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Did The Prophecy become true?
There are a number of ways in which the prophecy could be interpreted to have been completed.
"The one with the power to vanquish the Dark Lord approaches ... born to those who have thrice defied ...
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What are all the prophecies in The Lord of the Rings?
Here is another prophecy made by Malbeth the Seer who was mentioned in Moriarty's answer.
Arvedui was indeed the last king, as his name signifies. It is said that his name was given him at his birth ...
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How come Neville can't retrieve the prophecy?
It was already labeled as being about Harry.
The prophecy was already labeled as being about the Dark Lord and Harry, though there was a question mark by Harry’s name, because the prophecy wasn’t ...
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Was this prophecy in Game Of Thrones false?
TheLethalCarrot's answer is the simplest explanation. Though if one wanted to find some way to interpret the full prophecy from the books so as to make the show's depictions to date a fulfillment ...
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What are all the prophecies in The Lord of the Rings?
Whether covered by your question or not, but Sam foresaw the damage that would happen (or was happening, the timeline isn't hugely clear) to The Shire, when he looked into the Mirror of Galadriel, and ...
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What are all the prophecies in The Lord of the Rings?
I was originally planning this answer to cover LotR/Silm as well in a similar scope, but it was looking like more effort than it was worth and so I stopped after The Hobbit. However since there's a ...
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Short story where a grandmother is living a few days ahead in time and a flood
I posed this question on reddit, and someone found the answer. The story is part of a short story collection called Darkness Creeping: Twenty Twisted Tales by Neal Shusterman. The short story that we ...
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Did Voldemort mark Harry as his equal?
It isn't as complicated as you think.
Voldemort gave Harry his scar, a mark showing that Voldemort attempted and failed to kill him. According to the prophecy, that makes Harry the one with the ...
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What exactly did the centaurs read in the stars in Philosopher's Stone?
It seems like they did predict what would happen years later.
Firenze certainly seems to consider Harry staying in the forest unsafe, and he clearly showed that he knew what killed the unicorn and was ...
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