Question for my Harry Potter friends

[switch842]

I just finished watching Order of the Phoenix again and I have a possibly random question. Now, I've never read the book, so it may be answered in there, but in the scene in the end where they basically destroy that prophecy room, what happens to those prophecies? Do they get "destroyed" or something like that? Or does nothing happen? Are they still in existence?

Comments

[switch842.livejournal.com]

So, what does it mean when a prophecy is destroyed? That it's not true any more? And since Harry's was broken, does that mean that they can both be alive now?

[or-mabinogi.livejournal.com]

The prophecy itself isn't destroyed. Just the recording of it. It remains true that one of them has to die. I take it you haven't read book 7? It is kinda cool how it's pulled off. :-)

[switch842.livejournal.com]

Ah, ok. I was thinking that the balls or whatever were mostly just "recording devices." I haven't read any of the books, but feel free to spoil me. I know most of what happens already, anyway. :-D