Prophecy/Trelawney/Voldemort/Worries about Books 6 and 7

[Diana_Sirius_fan]

No: HPFGUIDX 70894

Hi everyone.

I have a couple things I would like to mention about all of your 
posts.  I think there are some really good theories out there that I 
so much want to be true.  Some of them I believe to be true and I 
keep thinking, "what if they're not?"  I have high hopes that JK's 
version will be just as deep and interesting as some of yours.  I'm 
just afraid I will be disappointed if some of these predictions about 
books 6 and 7 turn up to be nothing.

For instance, I really want Harry to be the Heir of Gryffindor. I 
believe he is and do not accept that Voldemort would waste his 
precious time going after Harry because of some prediction an old 
fraud made many years ago.  This does not make sense. Why oh Why 
would Dumbledore put so much weight in a prophecy?  Anyone can make a 
prediction, but since they stick it in a bottle at the MOM it makes 
it true?

I think that Trelawney could tell during her interview with 
Dumbledore that he was not going to hire her. She needed something to 
knock his socks off to get the job, so she made up the prediction. 
Dumbledore has said before something to the effect that predicting 
the future is tricky. (not sure his exact words)  So, I still do not 
understand how he would believe this prediction and the WW would make 
such a big deal about it. She could of said any month, lets just say 
the person born at the end of the eighth month.  Then, there would be 
some other child that Voldemort would be spending his life trying to 
defeat.  

Before OOP came out there was a lot of excitement because we knew 
Dumbledore was going to tell Harry everything.  So, this is it?  A 
prediction by a woman who has not correctly guessed anything in the 
last 16 years. (The GOF prediction was probably made up by her for 
emphasis also.) I was dumbfounded when I read about the prophecy, and 
not because I thought it was so great. I thought, no way. 

Now, if Harry was the Heir of Gryffindor it would make so much more 
sense.  Of course, Voldie being the Heir of Salazar Slytherin would 
want to defeat the only living Heir of his rival. I just can not 
believe that Voldie would go after a kid because of a prediction.  
Also, I do not believe that Harry being a baby could survive AK 
because of a prediction. He needed to have Gryffindor blood (and 
possibly Slytherin blood also) in him to live through a curse like 
that.  A prophecy would not have saved him.  I keep calling it a 
prediction because that is all it really is.  

Thanks for listening, 

Diana