Apparating into the Ministry...

[kashelkar]

No: HPFGUIDX 94025

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> Catherine McK responds:
> It is (from our present knowledge) far more difficult for Voldie 
> to get Harry to take the prophecy that for LV to do it himself. 
> So why does he get Harry to do the deed? To my mind there are 
> three possible answers –
>  
> 1) JKR didn't plot well enough.
> 2) There were additional problems for Voldemort, which will be 
>    revealed at a later date
> 3) Someone was giving Voldemort bad advice. 
>
> We know that Voldemort cannot gather all the information he 
> makes his decisions on himself, and sometimes that information 
> turns out to be wrong, e.g. plan (a) was based on the fact that 
> Avery believed Imperiused!Bode could get the prophecy. After its 
> failure, presumably Rookwood then said "My Lord, it must be you or 
> Potter". What happened then we don't know. Maybe LV did intend to 
> whisk in himself to get it until another DE suggested that was a 
> high-risk approach. A cunning, ambitious DE who didn't actually 
> want the plan to succeed, and knew his way around the Ministry, for 
> example (yes, I'm back on my Traitor!Lucius hobby horse).


Kashelkar's reply:

Catherine's last post indeed is interesting.  All her possibilities 
about Voldy not grabbing the prophecy himself look very plausible.  
And we can't guess a thing about it as we are not aware of the Voldy's 
side of the entire episode...  What was going on at their end, or how 
Voldy plans etc., etc.  Hence, we've to wait till HP6 is out.... 
However, I still feel that JKR should have created the plot in such a 
manner as to provide the readers a better insight about the things 
going on around in the book....


Steffy:
> IF LV whisks into the Ministry and steals the Prophecy, then it 
> would have been obvious that he had, in fact, returned.  By 
> convincing Harry to sneak into the Ministry, LV has solved that 
> problem.  <snip> 


Kashelkar's reply:

I, however, don't agree fully to this.  I had mentioned it earlier 
also, that if Voldy was afraid that stealing the prophecy himself 
would reveal his re-appearance, he could always create a fake glass 
orb and replace the authentic prophecy with the fake one.  It is 
never mentioned that HP's prophecy is recieving any special attention 
from the DoM/MoM employees.