Prophecy question

[tania_schr]

No: HPFGUIDX 75370

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "lewa8978" <rickjen at l...> 
wrote:
> OK, I may be way off here, but I have to ask a question:
> 
> Harry's vision that took him to the MoM was of V trying to get 
Siruis 
> to take down the prophecy, and Siruis refusing. 
> 
> When Harry asks Malfoy Sr. what the prophecy is, he seems 
surprised 
> that Harry doesn't know. I think he even says that that explains 
why 
> he (Harry) hadn't been to the ministry sooner. 
> 
> So.... if V didn't know Harry didn't know what the prophecy was, 
then 
> V didn't know that Harry didn't know that only the people in the 
> prophecy could take it down. Then V didn't know that Harry 
wouldn't 
> know that an attempt to fake it would work. 
> 
> Confusing??? V wouldn't think to use Siruis as a decoy of he 
thought 
> that Harry would know that Sirius wasn't in the prophecy and 
> therefore couldn't take it down. But he did use Siruis, without 
> knowing that Harry was ignorant of this stipulation.
> 
> Therefore.....V must have thought that Harry would believe Siruis 
> could take down the prophecy. 
> 
> See if that sinks in.....

I don't think that it mattered to Voldemort whether or not Harry 
would believe Sirius could take down the prophecy.  Even if Harry 
had somehow known and thought, "Voldemort knows that only he or I 
can take the prophecy.  What is he doing there forcing Sirius to 
take it?"  He still would have had the vision of Sirius being 
tortured, he still would have tried to contact him, he still would 
have failed and he still would have raced off to the MoM because he 
believed what he saw in his vision and whatever the reason, he 
didn't want Voldemort to hurt/kill Sirius.  Voldemort was banking on 
Harry trying to rescue Sirius so he could lure him to the prophecy 
at a moment that it was possible him and his DEs to ambush him.

Tania