[HPforGrownups] Prophecy question

[T.M. Sommers]

No: HPFGUIDX 75488

lewa8978 wrote:
> 
> 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.

If Harry did know that only the subject of the prophecy could 
retrieve it, then he would think that Sirius was in even more 
danger.  If he refused to take it, Voldemort would torture him, 
and if he did take it, he would be injured by the protective spell.