More Points to Ponder: The Prophecies

[scooting2win]

No: HPFGUIDX 74937

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "greymalkin0602" 
<8434793 at b...> wrote:
> I posted this a week or so ago on another Harry Potter message 
board,
> but there didn't seem to be much interest.
> 
> 
> We have had two major prophecies from Trelawney.
> 
> In Book 3, it was predicted that Wormtail would rejoin Voldemort 
and
> help him return to power. In Book 5, an earlier prediction was
> revealed that implied Voldemort would be killed by Harry (real
> unlikely that after 7 books Voldemort prevails).
> 
> Who are the predictions coming from? Why are they given to 
Dumbledore
> and Harry with all the Wizards and Witches around to choose from?
> 
> In Book 3, the prediction was given to Harry and it has since come 
to
> pass. Harry was involved in making the prophecy happen by sparing
> Wormtail from Sirius and Lupin.
> 
> Is this why the prophecy was "given" to Harry? Because he was
> crucially involved in making it happen? With this foreknowledge, 
could
> he have prevented it from happening? Why didn't/couldn't the 
unknown
> entity give it say to Voldemort instead?
> 
> In Book 5, we learn the earlier prophecy was "given" to Dumbledore.
> Why Dumbledore? What role is he marked for, willing or unwilling, 
as
> the prophecy comes to pass? Dumbledore seems determined not to let
> Voldemort know what the prophecy contains, yet willingly tells 
Harry.
> Is this the role the unknown entity has picked for Dumbledore? Or 
is
> it protecting Harry from Voldemort until he is strong enough to
> fulfill the prophecy? Or is it something else?
> 
> Why wasn't the prophecy from Book 3 on the shelf in the Ministry 
next
> to the earlier one?

My reply: Dumbledore (IMO) was meant to get the first prophecy to 
try to change it. My only question is, if the Potters were in Hiding 
were the Longbottoms? did they come out of hiding after the Potters 
were killed, well James and Lily anyway? Lori