Marking as an Equal

[Geoff Bannister]

No: HPFGUIDX 82575

Geoff:
> > This reminds me of something that has puzzled me. It has been 
> suggested here and in many other posts that Voldemort acted rashly 
> by attacking Harry at the age of 15 months and not leaving him to 
grow 
> up and then decide which of the two boys represented the threat.
>  
> A follow up to this is, why under those circumstances, did he wait 
> so long? Why was he not in there, firing from the hip, when Harry 
was 
> just a tiny child? >>>

Casper:
> I believe it relates to when V got the information on the prophecy 
> and when he knew who it may have been about.  But we have to always 
> keep in mind that he only knew the first little bit.  That was what 
> made him think he needed to go and kill Harry.  Had he known the 
> entire thing he certainly would have put some more thought into it.
> 

Yes, but the prophecy was made before Harry was born. DD refers to "  
a cold, wet night sixteen years ago..." Harry isn't yet sixteen at 
this point in OOTP so it was prior to his arrival. If the character 
who overheard Trewlany speaking to Dumbledore reported to Voldenort 
promptly, he knew about the existence of the prophecy in the middle 
of 1980. It still begs the question, why did he wait the best part of 
a year and a half before doing something?
Geoff