Já foi rotulado como sendo sobre Harry.
A profecia já era rotulada como sendo sobre o Lorde das Trevas e Harry, embora houvesse um ponto de interrogação pelo nome de Harry, porque a profecia não era específica quando foi feita.
Embora a profecia não mencionasse especificamente Harry, o rótulo parece ter sido alterado para incluir Harry em algum momento, porque o Lorde das Trevas tentou matar Harry.“He stepped forwards. Not as tall as Ron, he had to crane his neck to read the yellowish label affixed to the shelf right beneath the dusty glass ball. In spidery writing was written a date of some sixteen years previously, and below that:
S.P.T. to A.P.W.B.D.
Dark Lord
and (?)Harry PotterHarry stared at it.
‘What is it?’ Ron asked, sounding unnerved. ‘What’s your name doing down here?”
- Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Chapter 34 (The Department of Mysteries)
“The odd thing, Harry,’ he said softly, ‘is that it may not have meant you at all. Sybill’s prophecy could have applied to two wizard boys, both born at the end of July that year, both of whom had parents in the Order of the Phoenix, both sets of parents having narrowly escaped Voldemort three times. One, of course, was you. The other was Neville Longbottom.’
‘But then … but then, why was it my name on the prophecy and not Neville’s?’
‘The official record was re-labelled after Voldemort’s attack on you as a child,’ said Dumbledore. ‘It seemed plain to the keeper of the Hall of Prophecy that Voldemort could only have tried to kill you because he knew you to be the one to whom Sybill was referring.”
- Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Chapter 37 (The Lost Prophecy)
As profecias só podem ser recuperadas por quem elas são, o que provavelmente é determinado pela magia que controla isso por quem está em seus rótulos, e essa profecia foi rotulada como sendo sobre Harry.
“Why?’ Malfoy sounded incredulously delighted. ‘Because the only people who are permitted to retrieve a prophecy from the Department of Mysteries, Potter, are those about whom it was made, as the Dark Lord discovered when he attempted to use others to steal it for him.”
- Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Chapter 35 (The Department of Mysteries)
A profecia foi marcada como sendo sobre Harry naquele momento, então Neville não teria conseguido recuperá-la. Uma vez que o Lord das Trevas escolheu Harry como o maior risco, a profecia tornou-se sobre Harry e foi rotulada como tal.
book: Why did Voldemort pick Harry and not Neville?
JK Rowling replies -> Dumbledore explains this in 'Order of the Phoenix'. Voldemort identified more with the half-blood boy and therefore decided he must be the greater risk.
- World Book Day Chat (March 4, 2004)
A profecia parou de ser sobre Neville quando o Lorde das Trevas decidiu que era sobre Harry.