Did DD lie about the Prophecy?

[Smythe, Boyd T {FLNA}]

No: HPFGUIDX 117932

1st boyd wrote:
>> "That leaves plenty of room for a most subversive reading of these
prophecies: they're all a big fake-out. And a manipulative Dumbledore is the
perpetrator, deftly using his partial knowledge of the future to nudge
things in the right direction--with the 'prophecies.' I'm suggesting that he
'talks' through Sybill--a known seer-wannabe--to create bogus prophecies
that meet his needs." <<

Then Del replied:
> But my first question is : what was DD's need to tell Harry about LV's
servant breaking free ? As we discussed previously, the knowledge of that
prophecy didn't change anything in the way events happened that night. So
what was the point? <
> Unless, of course, you become really subversive and say that the only
point of the servant-prophecy was to set a precedent, so that Harry would
not even think of doubting the vanquisher-prophecy when he would hear it...
<
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Now boyd says:
I can think of three reasons for DD to 'speak' a false prophecy through
Sybill to Harry:

First, from the author's perspective, it throws us off the scent nicely. But
she may feel she clues us in a bit by making Sybill's voice and demeanor
change--she is temporarily possessed, right? We just don't know if it is by
some spirit...or a powerful wizard like DD. [BTW, extra credit for
subversives who tackle the what-if scenarios of all of these predictions
actually coming from LV or the ghosts of Salazar or Godric instead!]

Second, DD may want *LV* to hear this bogus prophecy through Harry's
connection!scar so LV will be convinced that Pettigrew is a true servant,
when he is actually a double- (triple-?) agent for DD.

Third, DD may want to be sure Harry accepts Sybill's prophecies so that when
the MoM scene occurs in OoP, Harry'll buy the whole (bogus) setup. And so
will LV, who will then expose himself in order to get the (bogus) first
prophecy. This does make that whole scene a bit less hard to swallow.

Dunno, maybe they're all right or all wrong, but at least I've got high,
hot-apple-pie-in-the-sky hopes.

--boyd
And it is a rainy Monday here, which clearly has made me extra-subversive
today. Or is it extra-insightful? Hmmm.