Prophecy wording prophecy wording - why repeat it it? How to contain it?

[mz_annethrope]

No: HPFGUIDX 128097


> Magda:
> > 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:
> <snip> 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.

mz_annethrope:

Hmmmm, brainstorm. Maybe Voldemort did send one of his minions after 
the keeper and the keeper was Bode, but the mission didn't produce 
the intended results.

More interesting brainstorm: how are prophecies preserved in their 
orbs? When the orbs are broken, pearly white figures emerge, revolve 
and voice the prophecy. I'm guessing that the person who hears a 
prophecy goes to the Dept of Mysteries, where the memory of the 
prophecy is extracted in a pensieve. Some sort of wizarding 
reproduction is done, and voila! the reproduction is contained in 
the orb.

Just a thought,
mz_annethrope