The only one he ever feared?

[Eustace_Scrubb]

No: HPFGUIDX 117264


Kim wrote:
<snips>
> > 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

khinterberg added:
> 
> If there was a prophecy about the coming of Voldemort and he himself
> found out about it, how would Dumbledore find out about it? Did he
> witness it?  Did someone tell him?  Or was his name involved as 
> well, so he could pick it up and touch it?

Eustace_Scrubb now:
The rise of Voldemort may well have been prophesied, and perhaps
Dumbledore heard it.

But if Tom Riddle already knew about the prophecy room at the MoM and
had removed this prophecy from the shelf himself, he wouldn't have
needed to spend months during OoP figuring out how to remove a
prophecy, would he?  First he tried to have a third party snatch it
(was that Broderick Bode under an Imperius curse?), then Rookwood
eventually told him that only those mentioned in the prophecy could
do it.

Cheers,

Eustace_Scrubb