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

[Matthew Huston]

No: HPFGUIDX 64908

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "magicalme9" <magicalme9 at y...>
wrote:

> You know, I really like this theory. What's confusing me is, why is 
> the Order trying to stop Voldie at all costs from getting the 
> prophecy? The only new thing is, that Harry will have powers Voldie 
> will never have and that one of them will have to die. Well, that 
> doesn't change much for Voldie (though it does for Harry), he wants 
> Harry dead anyway, always did so. I understand Voldie doesn't want to 
> risk going in the MoM, so he made Harry go, but...(trying to sort my 
> tangled thoughts) did he realy beliee Harry was going to give that 
> prophecy to the DE just because they asked him nicely:), or because 
> they threatened him? Voldie should know Harry well enough now, to 
> know that things with Harry never work out the way he wants. He keeps 
> underestimating Harry's powers all along the line. 
> And why - in the name of whatever - does he keep sending his DE's to 
> manage things for him that are of such high importance as they seem 
> to be failing A LOT?
> magicalme

Well to answer you last query first, it's a classic theme in books of
a youngster who's "coming into his own" and has a power to defeat the
evildoer of doom to struggle with the underlings who could be thought
of as Vold-o-rama's middle management level. He will always of course
overcome them and.or hold them off, because his preternatural luck and
powers will hold them at bay until help arrives or he himself can
escape (see just about every fantasy book written in the last 10 years
as reference). 

Not only did Voldemort send Death Eaters, but he sent what has been
made out as some of his strongest (in power, I suppose) Eaters. It was
mildly entertaining how the Eaters were fighting the Order tooth and
nail, and even knocking many of Dumbledore's gang out of the battle
but a fifteen-year-old boy kept slipping through their vile fingers. 

The prophecy was a let down. Plain and simple. The only thing it told
us, in my opinion, was that we'd just read 850 pages to get to a point
we knew pretty much since SS.