[HPforGrownups] Re: genealogy of Harry Potter:

[Kathryn Cawte]

No: HPFGUIDX 88355



> Geoff:
> I think the question of who can touch the prophecy refers to
> the /initial/ picking up and not later. Voldemort has been thwarted
> because he tried to get it via someone else; this failed because of
> the protection so he lured Harry to the MoM for that purpose. He
> could have got it himself but this would have confirmed that he had
> returned.
>
K

You know thinking about that - Voldemort's best plan would have been to get
into the Ministry without anyone seeing him (which let's face it doesn't
seem like the hardest task in the world), get the prophesy and get out. It
can only be touched by Voldemort and Harry, but Fudge is absolutely
*desperate* to believe Voldemort isn't back and equally to discredit Harry
who says that he is - he'd have turned himself inside out to find a way to
make it look like Harry stole it. Thus voldemort would have hade the
prophesy and the bane of his existence would have been in even more trouble
with the Ministry - perfect.

Unfortunately for Voldemort he never does things the simple way :)

K