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> > Pippin:
> > What the Order's been told, I imagine, is what Voldemort was 
allowed to think--that the prophecy would  tell him how to destroy 
Harry. Molly would naturally not want Harry to be told that. But 
Dumbledore had a much better reason than Molly for not wanting 
Harry to be told this -- he knew it  wasn't true. <<
 
Lupinlore:
> Interesting.  Can you quote any canon to support this, Pippin?  
I'm  not saying you're wrong, but I don't recall this in OOTP.  I 
don't  recall anyone ever saying WHAT Voldie thought the 
prophecy was.  <

Pippin:
Dumbledore speaking, re:Voldemort,ch 37, "He knew the 
prophecy had been made, though he did not know its full 
contents. He set out to kill you when you were still a baby, 
believing he was fulfilling the terms of  the prophecy. He 
discovered, to his cost, that he was mistaken, when the curse 
intended to kill you backfired. And so, since his return to his 
body, and particularly since your extraordinary escape from him 
last year, he has been determined to hear that prophecy in its 
entirety. This is the weapon he has been seeking so 
assiduously since his return: the knowledge of how to destroy 
you."

As we know, the prophecy doesn't contain instructions for 
destroying Harry, so if Dumbledore was letting Snape and Molly 
think that it did, he would have very good reasons for not wanting 
this information shared with Harry. It would also mean that 
Snape need not know that Harry is the only one who can 
vanquish Voldemort. He may not know the true contents of any of 
the prophecy, even the first part.

Pippin