genealogy of Harry Potter:

[Geoff Bannister]

No: HPFGUIDX 88359

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Kathryn Cawte" <kcawte at n...> 
wrote:

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 :)
>

Geoff:
That was the point behind my comment that Voldemort was thwarted when 
he tried to get the prophecy via someone else - was it Bode who 
finished up in St.Mungo's because of that? (I can't pin it down in 
OOTP at this time in the morning!).

He was also thwarted in the Ministry when he hoped to get Harry to 
hand it over and ude to the failure of the Death Eaters to really 
take the toung people seriously, it agve time for the adult OOTP 
members to get there and of course his Lordship had to intervene 
himself and managed to mess up on that one too. Passing thought - 
Hitler was also quite good at getting in the way of his underlings 
and making their best laid plans a bit pear-shaped wasn't he? Perhaps 
it is a failing of megalomaniacs....