Why not let Harry destroy the Prophecy from the beginning?

[phoenixgod2000]

No: HPFGUIDX 132663

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "horridporrid03" 
<horridporrid03 at y...> wrote:
> > >>Davenclaw:
> > I have another question about the Prophecy: 
> > Since it was ultimately of little consequence that the 
orb        
> > recording the prophecy was destroyed, 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?
> 
> Betsy Hp:
> Yup! (At least IMO <g>.) It's like PS/SS all over again.  
Dumbledore 
> was setting up a trap and the prophecy was the bait.  During OotP, 
> what was Voldemort's main priority?  Keeping his return a secret.  
> Why else was Lucius Malfoy keeping Fudge on such a short leash?  
And 
> what was Dumbledore's main priority?  Getting the truth out.
> 
> Both Dumbledore and Voldemort knew that stealing something from 
the 
> DoM was a tricky business.  Voldemort did everything in his power 
to 
> keep from going down there himself.  Dumbledore, on the other 
hand, 
> was doing everything in his power to *get* Voldemort to the DoM.  
> The prophecy was the best bait Dumbledore could think of.

Why would he want Voldemort to come out of hiding though? Harry 
isn't ready to kill him and if he wanted Voldemort to just be 
revealed why not just stick Harry in front of madame Bones with a 
pensieve and let her look at the memories in the graveyard?

Sigh, I hope HBP makes more sense than OOTP.

phoenixgod2000