Why should LV fear DD at all? [spoilers]

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No: HPFGUIDX 66246

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Tim Regan" <timregan at m...> 
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> Hi All,
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> --- In HPforGrownups syndicateblue wrote:
> > We dedude from the prophecy says that the only one who has the 
> power 
> > to destroy Voldemort is either Neville Longbottom or Harry 
> Potter.  
> > We also know that Voldemort knows at least that much.  Why then 
> > should he - Voldemort - fear Dumbledore 
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> Dumbledore does not have the power to 
> overcome Voldemort. But that may just mean that eventually 
> Dumbledore would have to enlist the help of the one who fulfills 
the 
> prophesy – in the meantime he could hold Voldemort captive.
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> Cheers,
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> Dumbledad.

now me,
       I had thought about this as I was reading, but the fact that 
Dumbledore kept insisting that there are eventualities far worse 
than death suggests he was threatening Voldemort with something that 
was mutually understood between them.  What this is, I have no idea, 
but it's fun imagining different possibilities!
There is the other possibility that Voldemort simply does not *know* 
that DD cannot completely destroy him.  Afterall he was desperately 
trying to get the prophecy at that time, so presumably he was still 
unaware that Harry is the only one capable of killing him 
permanently.
 -Mary