All the protections in Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

[meriaugust]

No: HPFGUIDX 89486

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "cubs99111" <cubs9911 at a...> 
wrote:
> Pippin:
> > The same argument applies to the Stone. But Dumbledore 
> > couldn't destroy it until he got Flamel's permission because it 
> > didn't belong to him. The Prophecy Orb belongs to the Ministry. 
> 
> 
> But I seem to remember that Harry and the gang shot spells at the 
> shelves that held other prophecies and they broke at least a 
hundred 
> of them that did not belong to them.  So if they were able to 
break 
> prophecies that they had nothing to do with, then surely someone 
> could have gone in and broke the prophecy that had to do with 
Harry 
> and Voldemort.
> 
> JR

If someone had walked in to the DoM and destroyed the prophecy 
regarding Harry and LV then that person would have heard it, and 
while I am still not sure how many people know about the prophecy 
itself, IMHO, Dumbledore probably wanted that knowledge limited.  
Keeping the only record in the prophecy hall (other than the one in 
DD's brain) would at least keep it secret for a while. But I think 
this thread brings up a good point: why keep records of the 
prophecies at all? Is this the WW version of a hall of records or is 
there some other reasoning behind it, other than a really cool plot 
device and a positively creepy department of mysteries tour? 
Meri