OOP: The prophecy spheres (was Dumbledore...explained)

[darrin_burnett]

No: HPFGUIDX 62494

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> Darrin wrote:
> > Darrin, reposting someone else's thought, wrote:
> > I like the automatically recorded idea. Another suggestion was 
that
> >D-Dore should have gone in there and smashed the thing.
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> > Tom replies:
> > After all, the only people who can remove a prophecy 
> > from those shelves are the ones it was about. Since it was about 
> > Voldemort and (?) Harry, Dumbledore wouldn't have been able to 
touch 
> > it.
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Melody:

> Actually, you have to be the one the prophecy is about to take the
> prophecy from the shelf intact.  Meaning, you will not loose it and 
it
> can be heard and used.  When Harry and Dumbledore's Army was 
defending
> themselves, they knocked over and broke a slew of other prophecies. 
> Also the DE curses blasted a few as well, and those prophecies were
> lost.  So all and all, Dumbledore *could* have destroyed 
that "weapon"
> if he wanted to, but frankly, all I saw was the OoP calling it a
> "weapon".  After all, they could not call it bait, now could 
they?  :D
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> See, if Dumbledore had just gone in and thrown his shoe at it, then
> Voldie would have never gone to the MoM and Fudge would have never
> seen him.  The DE's would have never been caught trying to steal it,
> and the WW would still think they are safe.  So basically, I believe
> Dumbledore used it as bait for Voldie once he knew that was what
> Voldie was after.  How this works with MD will be discussed later.
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What Melody said...

And I'd like to point out that it was Neville who broke the prophecy.

Again, Dumbledore should have smashed the thing.

Darrin