[HPforGrownups] Possibly a *really* silly question about the prophecy

[bettedavisgreen at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 63968

Dans un e-mail daté du 25/06/2003 20:50:44 Paris, Madrid (heure d'été), 
ShelaghC at aol.com a écrit :

> I'll start out with a rather nonsensical sentence to use up spoiler 
> space along with throwing in some meaningless asterisks, pound signs 
> and other non-letter-related keyboard symbols.
> @@@
> ###
> ~~~
> ***
> +++
> >>>
> &&&
> @@@
> ###
> ~~~
> ***
> +++
> >>>
> &&&
> 
> Okay, that should be sufficient.
> 
> <snip>

> 
> Why the heck, when it was clear enough to those who knew just about 
> everything but weren't imparting that knowledge to those who needed 
> to know, instead of placing a guard at the Department of Mysteries, 
> why didn't they just either move the bloody prophecy or destroy it 
> themselves?
> 
> 

Something about only Harry or Lord Thingy, the ones the prophecy was about, 
being able to touch the record container, anyone else who attempted slipped 
into madness - sorry, can't firnd the exact quote right now, but it was either 
Lupin or Dumbledore who said it, after Sirius death.

Apparently, the magical protection on the prophecy record containers affects 
only the container itslef - since everybody got into the room, and the kids 
were able to toss down the shelves (magically, they didn't touch them).

Couldn't they select just one container? Most likely not. I believe the 
protection is put after the container is set on the shelf, and there must be some 
sort of magical lock before that (I wouldn't think people would have to go into 
that room in order to get the prophecy memory out of their heads and into the 
container) to prevent anyone from opening it before the madness protection 
spell is performed.

And I don't think this kind of protection is anything even Dumbledore (let 
alone Moody) would be able to override. Then, would Dumbledore, in those days, 
get normal or magical access to the MoM and that particular room? Maybe opening 
the door itself (metaphorically speaking) would be a danger, maybe access was 
possible only after one of the two involved in the prophecy entered the room 
itself.

Then... how did Lord Thingy have such a visual of the room and path to it? 
Could there be a previous prophecy about him (very very likely)? Could he have 
possibly have worked in the MoM before coming to power? This prophecy was 
issued at the end of his reign, and then he himself would not have easy access to 
the MoM (I assume).

Cristina (who has given up on reading HPFG messages, nearly 4000 is way too 
much, and believes we're all simply saying what we think without caring much if 
others have said it, let alone if they said it better...)


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