Knowledge to Destroy Harry?

[Steve]

No: HPFGUIDX 128188

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "gelite67" <gelite67 at y...> wrote:
> 
> DD implies in OOP that the prophesy would tell LV how to destroy 
> Harry.  He tells Harry that since Harry's escape in GOF, "he {LV}
> has been determined to hear that prophesy in its entirety. ..."
> 
> I don't understand this for two reasons:
> 
> 1) To me, the prophesy (as we know it) doesn't even hint at how to     
> destroy Harry, unless LV is going to "hand" him to death.
> 

bboyminn:

Keep in mind that Voldemort doesn't know what the Prophecy says, he
thinks it might hold some clue to Harry's downfall, and that idea may
have been helped along by Spy!Snape. The Order's only concern is that
Voldemort is safer spending his time chasing a worthless Prophecy,
than he is if he gives it up and start open full scale war. 

So, the Prophecy is a diversion that has a strategic advantage to the
Order. Voldemort, since he has never heard the Prophecy, doesn't know
one way or the other as to whether it has valuable information. But
the Prophecy is the very thing that sets his whole downfall into
motion, and I'm sure he feels he would feel safer and more confident
knowing what is says. 

We now know the Prophecy wouldn't have been much help to Voldemort,
but Voldemort doesn't know that, even now the Prophecy is critically
important because as I said it the heart of everything that's
happening. Given what happened in the last book, and as much as he may
want to know, I suspect Voldemort has given up on hearing it. 

> Angie continues:
>
> 2) It seems apparent that LV believes the AK curse will kill/destroy 
> Harry, since he attempts to use in on him in GOF/OOP.  So what other 
> method of killing/destruction does the prophesy give him?
> 
> I suppose it's possible that LV thinks the prophesy will give him
> that info, but that doesn't seem to me to be what DD says or even 
> implies.
> 
> Angie

bboyminn:

I believe Voldemort's actions were a combination of frustration and
anger at Harry for having thwarted him again. In that moment of anger
and while the opportunity was there, he felt compelled to take action.
But as much as his own ego has convinced him that he is all powerful
and superior to Harry, there has to be an element of lingering doubt
in the back of his mind. He tried once to kill Harry and he failed,
failed in a big way, and that is not something, no matter how deluded
he is, that he can easily forget.

Yes, he was trying to kill Harry, but that was driven by frustration
and anger, in times of cooler temperment, I'm sure he still has his
doubts.

Just a thought.

Steve/bboyminn