OOtP: What would have confounded Voldemort even more! (spoilers)

[Matthew Huston]

No: HPFGUIDX 64603

Ummmm..what they should've done was GIVEN the prophecy to Voldemort. 

Imagine, he disapperates with the glass ball, cackling triumphantly,
the weapon he's sought for almost a year! The thing which will show
him everything he needs to know to gain victory over his foes and rise
to power unto unknown!

Thus he sets the tiny ball of clear glass down. From it rises the
ghostly form, a tiny version of a thin woman with glasses that make
her eyes appear overly large, and in an unearthly growl, she intones:

`The one with the power to vanquish the Dark Lord approaches
 born to
those who have thrice defied him, born as the seventh month dies 
 and
the Dark Lord will mark him as his equal, but he will have power the
Dark Lord knows not 
 and either must die at the hand of the other for
neither can live while the other survives 
 the one with the power to
vanquish the Dark Lord will be born as the seventh month dies 
`

"I WASTED A YEAR...A WHOLE YEAR FOR THIS?? PLANNING, DECEPTION,
ATTACKING MINISTRY OFFICIALS, RISKING MOVEMENT BEFORE I WAS
READY...ALL FOR T H I S? FOR THE SAKE OF ALL THAT IS DARK AND EVIL,
TELL ME SOMETHING I DIDN'T KNOW!!!"


Yup, Voldie. Welcome to the wonderful world of prophecy. Give him the
prophecy, Sirius lives, the war goes on.