[HPforGrownups] Digest Number 3489

[Darrell Harris]

No: HPFGUIDX 74377

Message: 19
   Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2003 00:59:17 -0000
   From: "Steve" <bboy_mn at yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: Dumbledore and the Prophecy that was

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Wanda Sherratt"
<wsherratt3338 at r...> wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Steve"
<bboy_mn at y...> wrote:
>>> So the choices are, smash the prophecy so
Voldemort will forget
about it and go on about his business of killing
people and taking
over the world, OR guard the prophecy for as long as
possible, and
keep Voldemort obsessed with getting it, thereby
distracting him from
his plan to take over the world. 

Personally, I think the second option, Dumbledore's
course of action,
is the much better choice. ... <<<


> Wanda responds:
>
>> ... good explanation for Dumbledore's actions ....
...the only good
one I've read.  The trouble is, it's up  to Rowling to
come up with
plausible reasons for the plot she's set in motion,
and she doesn't. 
There's NO explanation for why Dumbledore chose this
path instead of
the straightforward one described above, of just
destroying the
prophecy outright. <<

bboy_mn:
You assume that the options are destroy it or don't
destroy it, but
that's not true; the options are guard it or don't
guard it. Put it
another way, the choices are protect it, or just
ignore it and let it
sit on the shelf where it has been sitting for many
years. 

I really see no logical reason why they would want to
destroy it. I
guess you could say that destroying it would prevent
Voldemort from
getting it just as easily as putting guards around it,
but we also
have to remember that this is, in a sense, a public
record; it's not
Dumbledore's to destroy. And destroying it outright,
leaves Voldemort
free to do other things. As long as it exist, it is a
distraction for
Voldemort and this DE's. 



> Wanda responds:
>
>> The whole plot just sits there, as if no
justification is
necessary, and so none is offered.  This is why I find
OotP
unsatisfactory - the writer seems to think that the
reason behind all
the action we've witnessed is self-evident, and it's
just illogical. 
It taints the whole book from the root. <<





 Silly me I thought it was self evident. I've spent
all this time thinking it was to draw Voldemort out
into the open. Since only he or Harry could remove the
prophecy from it's resting place and Harry was kept in
the dark it meant sooner or later Lord Thingy would
have to come to the MOM in person and show himself to
get at it. 

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