Dumbledore and the Prophecy that was

[troysilverstone]

No: HPFGUIDX 74203

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Ravenclaw Black 
<RavenclawBlack at C...> wrote:
> 
> 
> magicroxx wrote:
> 
> > Dumbledore takes Harry to the Ministry
> >
> > "Prophecies Harry can only be taken from the shelves by the people
> > that it concerns. This is a very powerful weapon that Voldemort 
could
> > use. It is dangerous for him to know Harry, that is why you need 
to
> > listen to the prophecy and then destroy it" (assuming that DD 
can't
> > follow harry into the DOM)
> >
> > I mean the thing broke anyway, and its probably for the best. I 
mean
> > come on, he had people guarding it every night and if he knew 
what it
> > said, then what was the point. Just break it!! That way Voldemort
> > never needs to know.
> 
> 
> I must agree with this.
>  
> The first time I read the book, there was this big tension about 
what 
> they were guarding.  Then, when I got to the chapter called 'the 
lost 
> prophecy', I thought, well, the prophecy was lost.  But Dumbledore 
had 
> it in his head the whole time. 
>  
> I was pretty mad.
>  
> I let the whole 'why didn't Voldemort make Harry's toothbrush a 
portkey' 
> thing slide, because, I thought it was a minor dumb move, and, with 
> stretching the imagination, there were some reasons to catch Harry 
at 
> the Triwiz Tournament.
>  
> Not this time.
>  
> Either having Harry retrieve the prophecy, or having the order go 
there 
> and destroy it, is just to straight forward a solution.  The only 
reason 
> it seems the order kept things a secret and didn't do this is so 
there 
> would be a plot to this book.  That doesn't cut it for me.
>  


Aside from the authors personal choices of events, lets look at these 
things logically...Lord thingy explains (and it makes sense) why he 
would wait until the end of triwizard tournament to snatch Harry.  
1. He would think it a delicious idea to take Harry from under DD's 
nose, return to a body, and then kill Harry. (slap DD in the face)
2. In addition, he knows that Harry is protected when at the Dursleys 
and it would be harder to spirit Harry away during the school year.  
Because the focus was on the Triwizard Tournament, everyone would 
waste a whole lot of time trying to figure out what had happened at 
the middle of the maze and he would have time to follow thru with his 
plan.

With regard to the prophecy, I think that it was a calculated 
move...You have to leave out bait to get the evil to reveal 
themselves.

It was DD's hope to get Harry to be able to block these messages to 
avoid putting him in harms way.  Since LV desperately wants to hear 
the prophecy, it would eventually dawn on him that Harry is not 
getting the messages to get the prophecy for him...he would need to 
enter by stealth to get ahold of it.

My Humble Opinion.

Cheers,

Troy