Intro pt II: Plotholes and Sirius

[greatelderone]

No: HPFGUIDX 71021

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Tasukibeth1 at c... wrote:
> Hey, since I has so many questions, I had to make two emails!
> 
> 
> Plot holes and the Prophecy please help(!) - 
> Why bother guarding the prophecy at all? If the OoP knew what the 
prophecy
> was (and they must have, since DD has it safe in his memories) 
already, why
> not just destroy it so VM can never have it? 

It wasn't theirs to destroy first of all since it belonged to the 
Ministry of Magic.

I just don't get it.
> and speaking of things I don't get, how did LV know that the night 
they all
> finally broke into the DoM was the same as the night that Harry had 
the
> vision of Sirius? Surely he couldn't have predicted that the gang 
would ride
> the Thestrals to London, and he couldn't have known when Harry 
finally saw
> the vision all the way through to its end. 

Voldemort probably did know that Harry was coming to London since we 
have seen that he is a skilled Legilmens and he can reach Harry's 
mind through the scar.


>And if Lucius, who was at the forefront, knew that Harry could
> endanger/break the prophecy, then why didn't he just perform some 
sort of
> spell to push Harry away from the shelf before he could grab it? > 

Did you bother reading the lengthy explaination from Lucius? Nobody, 
but Harry and Lord Thingy could grab the prophecy without getting 
cursed like what happened to Podmore and that other fellow in Mungos.



>No blaze of glory, no poignant last 
> words, no teary good-bye, not even an "I love you Harry." Nothing. 
Just a 
> wand blast and a stumble through the veil and  *poof*. Even his 
death, like his 
> life, was unfair.

The whole point of Sirius's death was that it was unfair.