[HPforGrownups] Who knows about the Prophecy?

[Magda Grantwich]

No: HPFGUIDX 108388

> I have a sort of general question.... do we have any idea which 
> characters know about the Prophecy (in its entirety)?  Dumbledore, 
> Harry, for sure.  Trelawny may not, she didn't remember making the 
> second prophecy.  The Order members must have known that there was
> a prophecy to guard, but did they know its contents?  Does Snape? 
>
> -Andromeda


Dumbledore and Harry - definitely, as you say.  Trelawney - no, not
consciously but presumably she might retain it in her subconscious
and Voldemort wouldn't care if he destroyed her in the process of -
shall we say - DIGGING it out of her.  (Pause for collective shudder
at the image that invokes.)

The Order knows there's a prophecy and I think that's all they need
to know.  If they knew the contents then it would be too easy to
kidnap one of them and get the info through DE torture.  (I'm
assuming that there's already a spy in the Order ranks somewhere -
NOT Snape - who will become an issue in the next book.)   

I think Snape knows the first half - the same half that Voldemort
knows and that he heard it from the DE side rather than from
Voldemort.  As for Snape's efforts to get Harry expelled, I do think
that Snape uses that more as the ultimate threat (which he seems to
see as some kind of exile to Siberia; remember Hermione's "we could
have been killed or worse - EXPELLED!") than something that he
expects to see happen.

Magda


		
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