How many people know the full prophecy?
dungrollin
spotthedungbeetle at hotmail.com
Fri Aug 27 16:13:23 UTC 2004
No: HPFGUIDX 111417
I've been wondering about this for a while. The only people we are
certain know the full prophecy are Harry and Dumbledore. (Trelawney
wouldn't know, as she doesn't appear to remember her prophecies).
McGonagall didn't appear to know about it at the beginning of PS,
(in fact from her surprise, she didn't appear to even know that You
Know Who was after the Potters) and *she* was in the Order of the
Phoenix at the time.
Pettigrew doesn't know, (he was also in the Order - see photograph
that Moody shows Harry in Grimmauld Place) or he'd have told You
Know Who and there wouldn't have been a story for OotP.
If Pettigrew didn't know before the attack at Godric's Hollow, then
is it a safe assumption that Sirius and Lupin didn't know at that
time, either?
My biggest question is: Did Lily and James know? If they did, why
on earth did they refuse Dumbledore as secret-keeper in favour of
Sirius, and then (absurdly) in favour of *Pettigrew*? If you know
you're hiding the only person who can defeat the Dark Lord, that's a
pretty dangerous double-bluff.
And if they didn't know... Was Dumbledore trying to stop the
possibility of the information coming out under torture? Would he
not have used every piece of information he could to impress upon
Lily and James the importance of keeping Harry safe? (At this point
no-one knew that he'd survive the AK.)
Presumably Dumbledore has now told members of the Order, as they
were guarding the prophecy throughout OotP, (though not necessarily -
they do trust him rather a lot, he may have just told them that it
was important, rather than revealing the contents). I would assume
(if this is the case) that he told them *after* You Know Who got his
body back at the end of GoF when the Order re-formed, otherwise the
real Moody would have known, and Crouch Jnr would have got the
information out of him, and told You Know Who, and again, there'd
have been no story for OotP.
But if now the whole Order knows the full contents, that's
dangerous - there was a spy within the Order last time, there could
be again now (or in the future). Perhaps he's only told them the
first part, the part that You Know Who already knows.
Ugh, I'm going round in circles. Can anyone help? Is anyone even
interested?
Dungrollin.x
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