Talk:Prophecy Construction/@comment-105.169.44.83-20130126150059/@comment-5305952-20150926213816

Lord Voldemort tried that and it literally ended up killing him. In attempting to kill a newborn that he (Voldemort) had believed to have been prophesied to kill him (turns out it could've either been Harry or Neville Longbottom), Voldemort had unwittingly sealed his own fate by literally choosing (making) Harry the choosen one. This is called a self-fufilling prophecy.