[HPforGrownups] Re: Prophecy wording prophecy wording - why repeat it it?

[Magda Grantwich]

No: HPFGUIDX 128068


--- Geoff Bannister <gbannister10 at aol.com> wrote:
> 
> '"The odd thing, Harry" he (Dumbledore) said softly, "is that it
> may not have meant you at all. Sybill's prophecy could have 
> applied to two wizard boys, both born at the end of July that 
> year, both of whom had parents in the Order of the Phoenix, both 
> sets of parents having narrowly escapd Voldemort three times. One, 
> of course, was you. the other was Nevile Longbottom."
>
> "But then... but then, why was it my name on the prophecy and not 
> Neville's?"

> "The official record was re-labelled after Voldemort's attack on
> you as a child," said Dumbledore. "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."


Hang on a minute here.  How does the Keeper of the Hall of Prophecy
know what the prophecy is?  And how come Voldemort didn't just go
after him to get the information about what the prophecy contained?  

Magda

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