[HPforGrownups] Did the Potters know the prophecy?

[jp velasco]

No: HPFGUIDX 117350


kate said
 
In the middle of reading PoA (again), I began to wonder, did Lily and 
James know about the prophecy?  Did DD ever tell them exactly what 
Trelawney said that night?  


jp velasco here

I don't think that DD told anyone the contents of the prophecy. I think that the spy (maybe Snape) told DD that voldy was after the Potters before the prophecy happened maybe because that Voldy asked the Potters to join his Death Eaters they (Potters) refused. I think that the prophecy reenforced the need of DD to protect the Potters from Voldy. in OotP, Sirius (or maybe Lupin) said that the ideas of DD on the actions of Voldy is so shrewed that it turns out to be right and in the chapter that DD tells Harry the prophecy, DD said that voldy had chosen the Potters because of the "impurity" of blood, much like voldy himself. so I think that the prophecy just confirms the "spy" that Voldy is after the Potters. lucky for DD because the prophecy had put him and the order at an advantage against Voldy.