[HPforGrownups] Real reason for LV wanting the Prophesy?

[Sue Porter]

No: HPFGUIDX 79340




Laura:
>The thing that puzzles me about this prophecy plotline is that DD has
>deduced everything that LV is likely to do well in advance of his
>actual actions.  DD knows that LV wants the prophecy.  He knows that
>LV will discover that only he or Harry can get it.  He knows that LV
>will soon figure out that he can manipulate Harry's mind.  But he
>also knows that the prophecy isn't reliable.
<snip>
>But instead, DD acts as though this prophecy is truly significant
>(i.e., in the discussion he has with Harry at the end of OoP).
>That's what I don't understand.  Usually everyone in the story is
>taken in by a Mcguffin.  Here, DD seems to be perfectly aware that
>it's a fraud-but he lets everyone else think differently.
>
>

Sue:

I just had a thought on the prophesy, shoot me down if you like, but what if 
LV didnt actually want the prophesy? What if he wanted to know who had made 
the prophesy?

I'm thinking that he probably knew or guessed what the prophesy said, 
despite his spy being kicked out of the pub before the end. Maybe the spy 
was kicked out before he found out who it was that made the prophesy.

There has been so much discussion of the interpretation of the prophesy, and 
so many theories about other ways in which LV could just have got into the 
MOM and got the prophesy himself or whatever, but we don't know WHY he 
wanted it. And no one has come up with anything yet that has convinced me 
that he did indeed want the prophesy. The only thing that has come close is 
that he was hoping to lure Harry into a trap. Well, he could have done that 
in so many different ways. Why the prophesy?

Now, as to why LV would want the prophesy maker, it's possible that he wants 
a seer in his team of DE's to guide him via further prophesies. To give him 
some idea of how to kill Harry, when we all know that the good old favorite 
of the Mouldy Oldie, the AK doesn't work on Harry.

I'm sorry if this doesn't sound too well thought out yet, but its 12.45am 
and I'm tired. (boo hoo). I just had to post this thought because I would 
love to add Trelawney to LV's long list of mistakes where Harry is 
concerned. She may have made one or two prophesys (Lord how I hate typing 
that word - have to stop and remember how to spell it every time!), but 
generally she is a very unsympathetic person.

Sue

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