Why Couldn't LV get the prophecy for himself?

[revaunchanistx]

No: HPFGUIDX 75410

 In the world of evil lords Voldy had an ingenious plan. I think the 
one person you are all not mentioning is Lucius Malfoy. Voldemort 
puts Lucius in charge of the operation. He did not put either one 
of the Lestranges or any of the other 12 escaped dementors in charge. 
This leads me to believe that the plan was largely created and 
executed by Lucius Malfoy. Earlier in the book we see Lucius 
talking to Fudge. I got the feeling that Lucius could spread around 
alot of money to many of the MoM employees. Even getting Fudge to 
keep the order guard away from the Door to the department of 
mysteries.
 
 For Voldemort to physically expose himself to do such a menial task 
would be stupid. Haven't you all seen the Godfather. How many times 
did Don Corleone kill someone, or do anything by himself. The risks 
are too great. Especially when you have someone like Lucius to pull 
the strings and execute your plan. The only flaw in the plan was 
Harry refusing to give up the orb. I think Harry's reluctance to give 
the orb to Lucius was not expected. All of the DE's and Voldemort 
had assumed that Harry had already been told about the prophecy. In 
assuming that the Harry was aware of the prophecy the DE's and 
Voldemort would have deduced that Harry would give up the prophecy 
and protect his friends instead of protecting the prophecy.
  
 If Harry had only retreived the prophecy knowing it's contents 
curiousity would have not been on his side. He protected the prophecy 
only because he thought that the information was valuable to the 
DE's. He did not protect the orb because of the nature of the 
prophecy. If Dumbledore had told Harry the prophecy, he would have 
been more apt to throw the prophecy or use it as a barganing tool for 
the lives of his friends rather than have his friends risk their 
lives to protect it.
  
 The idea that an evil person should just do this, or it would have 
been much better to do this, is repetive and has all been said 
before. Isn't that the whole premise behind "Austin Powers." We are 
all evil genuises at heart and can think up some great plans. However 
I plan on holding off discussing mine until one actually works. Then 
I can say another evil genius's plan is dumb.

 PS: Read the books again and focus on Lucius; he truly is a very 
skilled and evil person. He is not refered to as the most loyal DE, 
but he is obviously the most gifted and most used by Voldemort. Maybe 
not most trusted. But then again in the evil genius handbook your 
most loyal follower may not be your best man.

"revaunchanistx"