[HPforGrownups] why are prophecies stored in glass orbs??

[Peggy Gross]

No: HPFGUIDX 94051

--- kashelkar <kashelkar at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Why do MoM people save the prophecies in glass
> orbs??  Is not there 
> any other method of saving the thousands of
> prophecies in a better, 
> safer and more secure way (consuming less space,
> maybe)?  Do we 
> always have to destroy a prophecy to listen to it?  
> What purpose is 
> served by saving the prophecies in fragile glass
> orbs, which only a 
> single person in the world can touch and which can
> only be listened 
> to after destroying it (ie. only one time use)??  
> 
> What happens to the prophecies, when the person who
> could ever touch 
> it, passes away??  What kind of a "Anti-touching"
> spell is put on 
> them which even the DEs can't nullify??  What could
> possibly be the 
> procedure for recording a prophecy which was
> announced in a corner of 
> the country by a Seer,(who could hardly remember
> anything spoken at 
> that moment) to an audience?? I.e., are the people
> listening to the 
> Seer expected to report to the MoM, so that a
> prophecy could be 
> created or what??
> 

> 
You just posed some interesting questions. I don't
think we've gotten enough background information on
that Hall of Prophecy (that's my term).

I've wondered about that too. Along with these. How
does the Ministry know when a prophecy is made? How
soon after does the orb get created. Is there a copy
of the prophecy that Harry heard in his third year
stored there? 

The glass orbs seem to be a very impractical way to
store those. They seem very fragile. Just think of all
those prophecies that were lost when Harry et al
smashed those shelves.

pegoheart