Newbie OOP Prophecy as weapon (LV's true weakness)

[Ashley]

No: HPFGUIDX 62756

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Mark D." <uncmark at y...> wrote:
> 
> Which brings us up to OOP where LV's objective is a 
> weapon, 'something that he didn't have before.' Somewhere in his 
> darkforce-addled mind, LV got the idea that the prophecy is the 
key. 
> He may think it contains specific information to final victory so 
he 
> makes it so. Because LV is after the prophecy, it becomes the OOP's 
> objective to protect it
> 
> Agreed, Dumbledore should have known that the prophecy was not what 
> LV thought and he did. For book 5, LV is not Dumbledore's #1 
> priority. Dumbledore is concerned mostly with 1) his student's 
> safety & well-being, 2)Fudge & the MofM and 3) Voldemort. By 
letting 
> Voldemort waste a year chasing a worthless prophecy, Dumbledore 
> probably saved countless lives, allowed the OOP to gather its 
> forces, and allowed the HRH trio to get another year of training.


This message has seriously made me think.  We know why Voldemort 
wanted the prophecy, if it's true that he thought that it could tell 
him how to finally kill Harry.  But that DOESN'T explain why 
Dumbledore and the Order set about protecting the door to the room 
that held the prophecy--after all, wasn't Arthur Weasley stationed 
there when he was attacked by the snake?  In truth it didn't matter 
whether Voldemort saw the prophecy.  The above poster astutely 
pointed out that this was helpful ultimately to the Order of the 
Phoenix because it stalled time before Voldemort's return.  I can't 
help but wonder whether it occurred to Dumbledore how lucky he was 
that the particular object that Voldemort was after was housed in the 
Ministry of Magic, the very institution that had been denying 
Voldemort's return from the beginning.  After the final battle, Fudge 
and his administration had no choice but to admit the truth of 
Voldemort's return.  So, perhaps Dumbledore had more in mind in 
protecting the rather useless prophecy than just stalling for time: 
he might have forseen that, after the inevitable battle to protect 
the Prophecy, the Ministry would be forced to admit Voldemort's 
return.

Which could, if you wanted to be a conspiracy theorist, have been 
Dumbledore's ultimate plan in allowing Harry's dreams that led him to 
the Department of Mysteries to continue.

I don't know particularly that I believe this, having never been part 
of the Dumbledore-is-evil crowd, and especially after his apparent 
sincerity in explaining everything to Harry in his office after the 
battle.  Just speculating...