The only one he ever feared?

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No: HPFGUIDX 117249


Kim wrote:

>> <snip> It sure seems likely that a wizard of Dumbledore's
wisdom <snip> would have somehow known that Voldemort would
be on the way <snip>  Trelawney's prophecy about Harry's birth
(and defeat of Voldemort) was only one of many on the shelves in the
Dept. of Mysteries, wasn't it? What's in all those other prophecy
balls (spheres?)?<<

Chancie replied:

>> I definitely agree! Perhaps thats also why Tom Riddle says everyone
trusted him except Dumbledore after he opened the CoS and why
Dumbledore know's Tom Riddle/Voldemort is one and the same! Maybe he
heard a prophecy that said that Salizar Slytherin's decendent would
come to finish his work...kinda like what Tom Riddle says in the
Chamber....Question. Do you think Voldemort know's if there was a
prophecy? Could this be how he found out he was/is Slytherin's
decendent? If so, how did Voldemort find out??<<

Kim replies:

I think we may be on to something!  From the prophecy about "the
coming of the Dark Lord" or "Slytherin's heir" maybe DD wouldn't have
known exactly who that Dark Lord would be, but he might have put two
and two together when he saw what kind of student Tom Riddle really
was.  And the Dark Lord prophecy might have mentioned certain
specifics, like a time when the Dark Lord would appear, etc., that
would have pointed to Tom Riddle being the one.  Kind of like the way
Harry's prophecy didn't mention Harry's name, but did mention the
circumstances of his birth.  And doesn't OotP show that only the ones
about whom the prophecy is written can open the prophecy sphere?  So
maybe TR went to the Ministry years before, found the "Dark Lord"
sphere and opened it?

Kim