Just suppose Snape is at the heart of it all

[arrowsmithbt]

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--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "jdr0918" <jdr0918 at h...> wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "arrowsmithbt" 
> wrote: ...Alternatively the whole Prophecy thing could be Dumbledore 
> playing mind games with Voldy.
> Depressing, isn't it?
> 
> The Sergeant Majorette says
> 
> Oh, no, certainly not depressing! Dumbledore messing with poor Tommy 
> Marvel's head for no other reason than plain bad-spirited fun just 
> perks me right up. What depresses me is all that "power of love" 
> treacle.
> 

We can agree on that all right. And don't talk to me of love; "Stay me with
flagons, comfort me with apples, for I am sick of love." Poisonous stuff.
Been the ruin of many a good  bloke. 

No, what depresses me is that I can't see any way to eliminate any of the
alternative explanations as to what's going on with the Prophecy until we 
get more information. 

All we have are Dumbledore's explanations -  there is *no* other source.
Everything about the Prophecy comes from him. There doesn't seem to be
anyone else around that can independently confirm that it exists with the
subject matter and content as claimed by DD. 
 
Not even a smidgeon of confirmation of the contents when the globe broke
in the Ministry. By some strange(!) chance not a single word of the Prophecy
was heard. 
Somewhere there is (should be) the eaves-dropper who told Voldy that he'd
heard a line or two; but we don't know who that is either. Friend of DD, do
you think? Could be, because it certainly stopped Voldy from getting on
with the job of taking over the world. Quite a happy coincidence, wasn't it?

It's things like this that raise my paranoia index to unhealthy levels.
I feel that I'm being messed about and I'm not happy.

Kneasy