Prophecy wording prophecy wording - why repeat it it?

[Geoff Bannister]

No: HPFGUIDX 128083


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Magda Grantwich <mgrantwich at y...> 
wrote:

Magda:
> 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?  

Geoff:
Dumbledore knew what was in the prophecy and I assume that he felt it 
important that a copy be placed in the Hall of Prophecy. So I would 
anticipate that the keeper would have some idea of its content when it 
was committed to his care; there has got to be some sort of indexing 
system to retrieve the records kept in the archive.