OOP: Possibly a *really* silly question about the prophecy

[Gregory Lynn]

No: HPFGUIDX 63778

Brooke says:

"The way I 
justified it in my mind was that Harry was the only person who could 
actually take the prophecy from the shelf (remember, V needed Harry 
to retrieve it for him because V himself could not lay his hands on 
it, otherwise he would have just gotten it himself).  "

I don't think that's accurate at all (I don't mean that in a nasty way).  The prophecy is about Voldemort as much as it is about Harry so he should be able to go in and get it.  I just took it to be that Voldemort thought showing up to get it would be a dead giveaway that he really was back.

As for the larger issue of why they didn't just destroy the prophecy, my take is that they wanted to bait and delay Voldemort.
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Gregory Lynn


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