Who knows? DD knows, that's who.

[potioncat]

No: HPFGUIDX 117766


Snipping here and there, Potioncat is writing a long winded "Me too" 
post:

Kneasy wrote: 
> OK. It's that Prophecy again.
snip
> 
> There it sat on a shelf in the Ministry, gathering dust, complete 
with 
> it's own little label dated 16 years previously -
> "S.P.T. to A.P.W.B.D. Dark Lord and (?)Harry Potter.
> 
> In his usual end of  book explication DD adds  the following:
> "The official record was re-labelled after Voldemort's attack on 
you as 
> a child. It seemed plain to the keeper of the Hall of Prophecy 
that 
> Voldemort could only have tried to kill you because he knew you to 
be 
> the one to whom Sybill was referring."


Potioncat:
Dark Lord? Was the keeper of the Hall a (former) Death Eater? DD 
doesn't tell us what the label said before. Nor does he say if he 
agrees with the change.

Kneasy:
> Two things -
> 1. DD knows much more than he's let on so far,
> 2. I bet there's more to come about prophecies; I bet there's 
another 
> one somewhere, probably from Cassandra Trelawney.
> Bet Voldy knows about it too; bet he thinks Sybill's adds to it.
> The thing is, with a name like Cassandra did anyone believe it?
> 
Potioncat:
The first is a given. Not only that but he plays with time a good 
deal when he explains things.  It really isn't clear why the 
eavesdropper was thrown out or when DD discovered that event and it 
isn't clear if it was a person with his/her ear to the door or a 
dirty rat sniffing about the baseboards. Or when the information 
made it to LV.

The second is almost a given as well.  How important were the bits 
we overheard during the MoM battle and did they have anything to do 
with all this?  It still nags at my mind that Lupin's boggart could 
be a prophecy orb. In spite of the very likely moon option, inspite 
of very good reasons to avoid Sybill's fortune telling...And he 
doesn't have to be ESE!Lupin to be tied to this some way. Nor does 
he need to be willing.

Playing with a prophecy can be as dangerous as playing with a Time-
Turner.  And maybe DD really doesn't dare be more clear.  Let's hope 
that if he knows everything, that he also knows what he's doing.

MagicFolk do strange things with words.  One of my favorite jokes 
ends like this:
"And for my third wish, make me irresistible to women."
Poof, the genie turned the man into a box of chocolates.

Potioncat