Help me understand the importance of the prophecy, please

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 82133

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "slgazit" 
<slgazit at s...> wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "augustinapeach" 
> <augustinapeach at y...> wrote:
> > Finally, Voldemort -- "It's probably lucky Voldemort didn't get 
the 
> > orb for he'd have to take it back and demanded a refund!"
> > 
> > This is where I differ.  I think the prophecy has huge 
implications 
> > for Voldemort.  For one thing, it tells him who he really has to 
> > fear -- Harry.
> 
> But he knows that from the part of the prophecy he knows of - 
"the  one with the power to vanquish the dark lord ... will be born 
as the  seventh month dies". Why otherwise does he spend so 
much effort  trying to destroy and/or capture Harry, but virtually no 
effort on trying to kill Dumbledore?
>

But Voldemort doesn't know that the prophesied one is the *only* 
one who can kill him (either must die at the hand of the other), so 
he actually needn't fear Dumbledore or the Aurors, whom he has 
been  avoiding for so long. Voldemort also doesn't know that he 
is the only one who can destroy Harry (if Harry is the One), so 
that his efforts t to make Dumbledore do it  for him are bound to 
fail.

Another thing Voldemort doesn't know is that it was prophesied 
that he would mark his equal, meaning he is still in  doubt about 
whether Harry or Neville is the One.

Pippin