NOW Who Knows the Prophesy?

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No: HPFGUIDX 116131


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "cunning_spirit" <cunning_spirit at y...> wrote:
> 
> I was quite astonished at the end of OotP to see Dumbledore lay out Trelawney's 
prophesy 
> in full during his explainations of the previous year's events to Harry. Dumbledore KNEW 
> that Harry had failed to master occlumency, and yet he went ahead and spilled the very 
> beans that Voldemort had most of his top DEs scrambling to obtain. Doesn't this 
possibly 
> mean that Voldemort now knows the entire prophesy now as well, given his mental 
bonds 
> with Harry? I was deeply croggled by all of this. Did I possibly miss something?
> 
> -cunning spirit

Antosha:

Three separate thoughts occur to me.

1) DD doesn't care; it's time for Harry to know.

2) DD _WANTS_ LV to hear the rest of the Prophecy, for reasons that elude me, but which, 
knowing JKR's devious mind, I can imagine.

3) DD is feeling secure that LV won't try to peak into Harry's brain for the moment--he got 
rather badly hurt the last time he tried, and DD plans some sort of remedial occlumency 
program over the summer. 

It could be any or all of these. Of course, we know the summer isn't going to go smoothly, 
so things may end up getting messy for exactly the reason you just threw out there.