Prophecy placing process

[boyd_smythe]

No: HPFGUIDX 81002

>> TIA, madeyemood wrote:
>> Is anyone familiar with the process by which a prophecy is 
funnelled into a crystal sphere? <<

> Grey Wolf responded:
> I have a pretty nice theory about 
it. Dumbledore hears the prophecy. Say he writes it down (to not 
forget). Goes to his office and uses a recording spell that works 
exactly like a muggle recorder, only in this case the words spoken
are kept in a round ball. Then goes to the ministry and does the same 
(he keeps the first in his office). The Ministry officials put it in 
the department of mysteries and place protection charms on it. After
a 
while, they decide Harry and Voldemort are the ones the prophecy 
refers to and the DoM changes the protection so only Voldemort and 
Harry can remove it from its place without braking it.
I don't think there is anything particularly complicated about it, 
evidently. The fact that other prophecies were broken in the fight 
shows that the defenses are not that great, and since we already know 
of spells that record voice (howlers) it is not a stretch to imagine 
others.
> Grey Wolf <


I had always imagined that either the seer's memory of the prophecy 
was extracted as in our pensieve scenes and deposited in a magically 
spelled crystal ball, or that the original prophecy itself was made 
with the use of a crystal ball (as Professor Trelawney mentioned in 
her 1st POA class) which then contained it. I like the latter.

Either way, my assumption was that this crystal ball would contain
the prophecy; the memory of the prophecy would not remain with the 
seer at all. Thus, LV has not gone after Trelawney to our knowledge, 
because she doesn't even remember the prophecy.

Since they are held in crystal balls in the MoM, we know that 
prophecies exist outside the seer who delivers them. I think that 
during this "channeling," the seer is merely putting into words the 
prophecy as best they can see it. Obviously not easy. Or complete. I 
think the prophecy in its pure form (as in the crystal ball) is 
actually *specific* about its subjects. So Harry and LV's prophecy
was *always* about them, but Trelawney couldn't see that clearly when 
she delivered it.

But since The Prophecy *is* specifically about HP/LV, the crystal
ball that holds it *could* have been accessible only to them from the 
very moment it was uttered by Trelawney. That would be part of the 
magic of the crystal ball--it responds only to the true subjects of 
the prophecy it contains. Perhaps even to the point of showing their 
initials on its label.

Of course, the prophecy was never "read" by Harry before the crystal 
ball broke, so there are still many unanswered questions surrounding 
it.

-Remnant