biggest SPOILER _ graveyard at Hogwarts

[Bex]

No: HPFGUIDX 109769

Linda's brilliant musing:
> Do you think that a prophesy can be that easily manipulated? If 
that 
> was all that needed to happen, why not use the imperious curse on 
> someone who could alter the names on the prophesy and have them 
take 
> it off of the shelves once it was realized that only someone named 
> on it could remove it??

Yb's turn, though somewhat dimmer:
I see two scenarios. Here they are, least likely first:

1) The DEs and LV didn't think about that. (Not likely.)

2) They did, at least try. Lucius came down to Level 9 near the 
beginning of OotP, making nice with all the hotshots and being mean 
to Arthur. I think he was rattling his his change purse, too. Maybe 
he tried to bribe the Keeper of the Prophecies that day. Then we have 
that little incident with poor old Bode. He worked on Level 9 (we 
learned that in GoF, Arthur called him an Unspeakable at the 
Quidditch World Cup), so maybe he /was/ the KotP. Anyway, he wound up 
in St. Mungo's, unable to speak coherently, move, whatever... My 
thoughts are that someone put him under the Imperius curse to try to 
change the name (or just take the orb), he started resisting, touched 
it when he shouldn't have, and suffered the fate of the Prophecy-
stealers. Then, when he started to recover, someone sends him Devil's 
Snare, and it kills him. That's what I think happened, unless there 
is canon to make me look like a liar.

~Yb