Incomplete Prophecy

[esmith222002]

No: HPFGUIDX 107194

My apologies if this has been covered before, but I have not managed 
to find any reference to it.

It appears to me that Dumbledore did not allow Harry to hear the 
whole prophecy. Looking at both of Trelawney's prophecies;
Prophecy No.1 - Harry heard this prophecy first hand. This prophecy 
is grammatically correct, with full stops and capital letters where 
necessary.
Prophecy No.2 - Harry heard this prophecy second hand. If this 
prophecy is complete, then it is grammatically very poor. It consists 
of one long sentence, containing several 'ands', and doesn't make 
complete sense.

Considering that JKR was an English teacher and that she has stated 
that she took great care writing the prophecy, then it seems that 
what Dumbledore is allowing Harry to hear are merely snippets of the 
prophecy. There is also the possibility that Dumbledore was actually 
responsible for breaking the prophecy, since he appears almost 
immediately after it is broken!

Which then begs the question - Who has heard the prophecy in most 
detail; Harry or Voldemort?  I was always confused by the fact that 
Voldemort spends the whole of OOTP trying to get hold of the 
prophecy, and yet when he encounters Harry, he attempts to kill him 
without a second thought! If the prophecy is supposed to be providing 
Voldemort with the knowledge of how to defeat Harry, then how can he 
be so reckless in trying to kill Harry, when he is still unclear 
about what the prophecy says! Perhaps there is some other aspect to 
the prophecy that Voldemort has heard, but Harry (and the readers!) 
has not, and it is this that Voldemort wants toclarify!