It occurred to him that there was a lot of what had gone on that probably most people didn't know anything about. "Right. So before I was born, at her job interview with Dumbledore, Professor Trelawney went into a kind of trance, and spoke a prophecy. 'The one with the power to vanquish the dark lord approaches. Born to those who have defied him thrice. Born as the seventh month dies. The dark lord will mark him as his equal but he will have power the dark lord knows not, and either must die at the hand of the other for neither can live while the other survives.'" He'd memorised the words more quickly than anything else he'd ever tried to memorise. "That's what it meant when people called me 'the chosen one' because Voldemort chose me as the one the prophecy was talking about. After she said it, she didn't remember saying it. Later on, she prophesised something else, and I was the only one to hear it. She didn't remember saying that one, either. That's how I knew it was real. I just didn't know it at the time."