Doh! Forgot about the Prophecy... (WAS Re: Incomplete Prophecy)

[smilingator4915]

No: HPFGUIDX 133982

In my emotional state when writing my last post, I forgot to finish
the other half of it! 

>RMM:
>Can anyone give me an idea of why it is of such importance that 
>Voldemort only heard part of the prophecy?
>After all, if he heard all of it, would it have changed his mind
about 
>who to go after?

I actually had the same question and one of my friends cleared that up
for me. According to DD, the "eavesdropper" only heard about the
foretelling of a boy in July whose parents had defied LV three
times... he missed the part about LV marking the boy as his equal,
that the boy would have powers LV did not know about and that one must
die at the hand of the other (IMO, some pretty important stuff). 

So, had LV heard the whole prophecy, maybe it would have changed his
mind about who to go after. As DD and Harry discuss in OOP, perhaps
had  LV heard the whole thing, he would have waited to see if Neville
or Harry turned out to be the bigger threat and then tried to kill the
one who he felt most threatened by. Harry probably would not have been
a Parseltongue and would probably have been a different person since
he would have grown up in the wizarding world with both of his parents
alive. Maybe LV would have seen Neville as a bigger threat... who
knows. 

As it turns out, LV acted with the knowledge he had and he chose Harry
because Harry was "half-blood" just like himself. Interesting how LV's
attempt to prevent the prophecy from happening actually caused the
start of the prophecy.

Just my thoughts...

smilingator (post #3! no more for today)