Harry Potter's Enormous Advantages: Prophecy, Blood, Wand...

"Professor Slughorn, you were half right.

"No, to be precise, you got only a small part of it right." Aaron smiled meaningfully. "Voldemort had no idea Harry Potter was also one of his Soul Containers. Otherwise, he would not have tried to kill him time and again."

"So it was the prophecy?" Lupin frowned in confusion. "Could the prophecy give Harry some kind of power?"

"You are overthinking it. A prophecy is just a few words, not some unfathomable spell. It would not give Harry any power.

"But because of that prophecy, Harry Potter gained an enormous advantage."

As he spoke, Aaron picked up a piece of chalk and wrote "Prophecy" beneath "Harry Potter." "Harry Potter and Voldemort—one must die at the hand of the other.

"Voldemort believed that prophecy completely. He even forbade anyone else from laying a hand on Harry Potter. That made the Death Eaters wary of Harry; even if they found him, they could only capture him alive and did not dare attack carelessly."

"We know that. Get to the point," Abufus said.

"This is the point," Aaron stressed. "In the entire Magic World, anyone can kill Harry Potter by any means, but Voldemort's magic alone cannot kill him.

"And yet Voldemort insists on killing him personally. Heh! That is an even bigger joke than Harry Potter being Voldemort's Soul Container."

The others looked at one another.

Staring at the word "Prophecy" on the blackboard, they seemed to have grasped something important, yet they could not put it into words.

"Could you explain it more clearly?" Frank asked. "Why can't the Dark Lord kill him?"

"There are many reasons." Aaron pointed to "Prophecy," then wrote the word "Blood" beneath it. "This is Harry Potter's second advantage."

"Three years ago, Hogwarts joined with Beauxbatons and Durmstrang to