[HPforGrownups] Why not let Harry destroy the Prophecy from the beginning?

[Chancie]

No: HPFGUIDX 132659

<Sniped> why didn't the Order just have Harry go in 
> and destroy it from the beginning, rather than have people risk their 
> lives to guard it?  Can anyone think of a plausible reason for this?  
> 
> - davenclaw
>
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> Sherry adds:
>
> And one thing that's always bothered me, why do they care if Voldemort
hears
> it?  He's already heard enough to make him try to kill Harry repeatedly.
> What's the point of keeping it from him?  How will that make things worse?
>
> sherry
>
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Chancie:

I do agree that it probably would have been easier to destroy 
the prophecy than guard it, but then they would still be running
the risk of Harry, being seen breaking to the DOM, and the MoM
was already trying to find a way to get rid of him. But I think 
that the DE's would have still been waiting for an opportunity 
to get the orb, so there would probably still have been a fight,
but maybe Sirius would still have been alive.

The only reason I can think of for the Order not wanting 
Voldemort to know the prophecy,  is that it might "tip him off" 
to what he needs to do to kill Harry in some way.  (I'm meaning 
the part that says "power the Dark Lord knows not...) It could 
also result in Voldemort going after Neville, and possibly others that 
he might see as a threat.  

Chancie