OOP: The Prophecy was a Decoy

[naamagatus]

No: HPFGUIDX 63501

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "pippin_999" <foxmoth at q...> 
wrote:
> 
> Dumbledore says it's a "genuine prediction." That is,  he 
> believes it contains verifiable knowledge of the future. 


That's an interpretation, after all. To say that true knowledge is 
*verifiable* knowledge is not at all a trivial statement of the 
obvious. Dumbledore hadn't said, and we don't know, what makes a 
prediction genuine. After all, he said it was genuine *before* it was 
verified, right? So, how could he know beforehand that it was? In 
fact, since only prophecies (which I take to mean genuine 
predictions) are kept in that Mysteries room, there must be some 
signs that marks a prediction as genuine, and that are independent of 
the actual outcome (e.g., the authenticity of the trance state). If 
you had to wait for future events in order to decide whether it's 
genuine or not, what would be the point of keeping prophecies at all? 

Naama