User blog comment:Neowitch/664 - Exposure and Exposition/@comment-3387274-20120418173918

The fact that CC is logia and not some wierdness is significant (He can drink stuff in gas form!). Also, I find What happened to Brownbeard during the timeskip explains a lot, and speaks volumes about Hawkin's personality so anyway.

Hawkins said he saw the shadow of death upon the guy. He lost both his legs, his crew, and everything but his life. In the New World, that's pretty much as good as him being killed, so the Prophecy didn't actually fail completely at all. It was just off by the tiniest margin... (all his other ones were probabilities not absolutes, so)

Also, the fact that Basil went and left the guy almost certainly doomed suggests he's a lot crueler than we thought.