[HPforGrownups] Re: OOP _ Who Knows?

[RSFJenny19 at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 65856


> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Melinda Leydon
> <melindaleo at m...> wrote:
> > Do you think all the members of OoP knew what was in the prophesy?
> I keep
> > re-reading passages and I think the Weasleys, Sirius, Snape, and
> Lupin, at
> > least, do.  What are anyone else's thoughts on this?
> > 
> > Melinda
> 

I've been debating this as well, and my conclusion is that I don't think they 
know what the entire prophecy says.  I'm sure they know that V is after a 
prophecy  and probably know that it was made about him and Harry, possibly they 
even know the beginning part that V knows, but any more than that...
Well, my reasoning came down to this: 
DD said at the end of the book that the weapon he'd been seeking was the 
knowledge of how to destroy Harry.  
Assuming the Order does not know, it would mean that only DD and Trelawney 
know the entire prophecy.  Here you may disagree with me, about Trelawney, and I 
agree she has no recollection of the prophecy, but DD has kept Trelawney at 
Hogwarts for 16 years (when he knows she's inept and doesn't even want to have 
Divination taught at Hogwarts), ever since the prophecy, and makes her stay 
when she gets fired. Why?  Because V would somehow be able to get the prophecy 
out of her ( probably through leglime-whatchamacallit) if he were able to get 
to her.  It wouldn't be hard for V to find out she made the prophecy, since 
it's marked on the glass, and noone has to touch it to read that.  Figuring this, 
I doubt he'd let anyone else in the Order know the entire prophecy because if 
V captured them he'd be able to get it out of them too.

So, my opinion is that now only DD and Harry know.  And I bet that Harry 
doesn't tell R/H until the end of book 6 :)

Jenny :)


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