Adults know best?

[boyd_smythe]

No: HPFGUIDX 101892

> Meri wrote:
>
> And to 
> top it all off, Harry finds out that DD has been withholding some 
> major truths from Harry for the last five years, namely the 
> prophecy, and even DD admits that if he had told Harry the truth 
> from the begining then things would have been very different.
> 
> Meri - who can hardly believe that the one year anniversary of
Order 
> is upon us...when oh when is book six?

boyd:
Meri, I just keep wondering whether DD really did tell Harry the
whole prophecy yet? Certainly there are cicumstances around the 
prophecy and/or GH and/or Harry's family and/or Harry's connection to 
LV that we don't yet understand, else we would know how Harry can 
defeat LV.

And I think DD knows those circumstances and their implications, thus 
the gleam in his eye, references to old magic, etc.

So what is DD holding back on? And why? Is he still lying about the 
prophecy, as some have suggested? Or is he merely not telling Harry 
some key piece of information that Harry hasn't asked for yet?

I guess it all goes back to: who is DD, and what is he capable of?

boyd - who is also shocked (shocked!) to find that OoP is a year old 
and yet book is still only in outline form (per JKR website)