It read "when spares are spared, when time is turned, when unseen children murder their fathers: then will the Dark Lord return." The prophecy predicted Delphini's Plot to restore Lord Voldemort.
Despite being the reason for his past, however, Harry also realised that the prophecy greatly affects his future: the part of it saying "Neither can live while the other survives" means that either he or Voldemort must kill the other in the end.
It contained Sybil Trelawney's original prediction to Dumbledore that a boy would be born to destroy Lord Voldemort, though that boy could have been either Harry or Neville Longbottom until Voldemort marked Harry “as his equal”.
What was the prophecy for Neville Longbottom and Harry Potter?
Dumbledore, to whom the prophecy was originally made, explains that it concerns "the Chosen One", a wizard that would have the power to vanquish Voldemort. This "Chosen One" would be born "as the seventh month dies", and thus the prophecy could refer to either Neville, born on 30 July 1980, or Harry, born on 31 July.
Cuz the prophecy was not just based on date of birth, there were other conditions too which both Harry and Neville fulfilled but except that Voldy marked Harry as his equal by giving him the scar rather than Neville and so Harry became the chosen one. "The one with the power to vanquish the Dark Lord approaches...
The Harry Potter prophecy suggests Neville could have been The Chosen One. Voldemort's assumption that it was Harry led to his own demise. Voldemort's choice to make Harry The Boy Who Lived was his undoing. His choices and inability to understand magic and power caused his downfall.
Initially, Voldemort twisted Harry into the position by first looking at his lineage. Tom Riddle and Harry Potter were both half-bloods, which meant Harry was more like him than the pureblooded Neville. From there, Voldemort focused specifically on the Potters, who had defied him to no end.
Trelawney made the prophecy while interviewing for the Professor of Divination position with Dumbledore. Snape overheard the prophecy and relayed it to Voldemort who then decided it was James and Lily Potter's child.
Severus Snape Told Voldemort About The Prophecy (& Is The Reason Lily Was Killed) When Snape was in the service of Lord Voldemort, he was eager to prove his worth. Therefore, when he overheard Albus Dumbledore interviewing Sybill Trelawney, he was only too excited to repeat what was said to his Dark Lord.
For the second time in Voldemort's life, the unforgivable curse rebounded on him, as the Elder Wand wouldn't kill its master. Since Harry and his friends had already destroyed all of Voldemort's Horcruxes, this finally ended Lord Voldemort's life, with Harry finally defeating the Dark Lord.
6 Voldemort Only Heard Part Of The Prophecy During The First Wizarding War. Since Severus Snape was caught eavesdropping on Dumbledore and Trelawney halfway through the prophecy, he only had partial information to pass on to the Dark Lord.
The Order battles the Death Eaters in the "Death Chamber". During a frenzied duel with Bellatrix, Sirius taunts her for failing to harm him. Bellatrix strikes Sirius with a curse, sending him backwards into the veil and to his death.
Severus Snape is also a half-blood (he gave himself the nickname "The Half-Blood Prince"), as his father Tobias Snape was a Muggle. Harry himself is a half-blood, since his pure-blood father, James, married a Muggle-born witch named Lily, and his maternal grandparents were Muggles.
In the movie, Order of the Phoenix, when they make it to the department of mysteries. It's Neville who says to Harry something like,"Harry, this one's got your name on it," and Harry then turns to grab it. Prophecies can only be found by those for whom they were made, right?
The prophecy in Harry Potter defined much of Harry and Voldemort's battle, and there's a theory that the prophecy potentially wasn't real but still managed to defeat Voldemort.
What makes Harry explicitly the chosen one in the books is 3 things, 1) Voldemort chose him that night to be the chosen one and decided to kill him and his family personally to avoid the prophecy, 2) Harry and Neville actually talked this out and Harry chose to take the possible responsibility off of Neville and to be ...
Harry describes Umbridge to Sirius Black, saying that she's vile enough to be a Death Eater, despite not being one. Umbridge is also depicted to be a prejudiced person, despising half-breeds and Muggle-born witches and wizards to the point of firing Hagrid due to his half-giant birth status.
Voldemort heard half of the prophecy from Snape. And the rest he never got to hear. The full prophecy which Voldemort couldn't hear before his fall, he was hell bent to know after he emerged back in Order of Phoenix… But the prophecy got smashed in the end before he can hear it out.
Voldemort intended Draco to die in the attempt to kill Dumbledore so that Lucius would be punished for his failure to retrieve the prophecy from the Ministry of Magic.
Trelawney's first known prophecy was witnessed by Albus Dumbledore in 1980, foretelling the birth of a boy who would be capable — though not assured — of defeating Lord Voldemort, that Voldemort would "mark him as his equal", and that either the boy or Voldemort would ultimately kill the other.
