Why not let Harry destroy the Prophecy from the beginning?

[Kadoo96801 at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 132681

Salit writes:  "Since the order can't destroy the prophecy, they must  
prevent LV
from taking it"
 
Why is the Order, or the Death Eaters, unable to destroy the  prophecy?  I 
thought that JKR's prophecy rules specifically stated that  only the person that 
the prophecy is about is able to REMOVE it from the DoM  (like, pick it up 
and leave).  From what I recall in OotP, Harry, Neville,  and company destroyed 
many, many prohpecies in the DoM while trying to create a  diversion and 
escape the Death Eaters.  All of these destroyed glass  balls released the speaking 
forms of their Seers....and spoke their prophecies  (although it was all at 
the same time and just created chaos).  Why  didn't the Death Eaters simply 
hear the prophecy themselves and relay  its message to Voldemort, instead of 
returning it to him in its glass  ball form?  It just seems like a waste of energy 
to sit around and wait for  Harry, when many powerful darkwizard DEs had 
perfectly good wands that could  smash the prophecy from a distance.
 
Also, is there any evidence in canon that the prophecy was indeed  the weapon 
that Voldemort was looking for?  It seems  almost inconsequential, especially 
since he knew half of it  already.
 
- Po


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