Yet another prophecy question

Karen Barker karenabarker at yahoo.co.uk
Thu Jun 16 13:19:41 UTC 2005


No: HPFGUIDX 130802

This has been puzzling me for some time.  As I understand it, the 
whole point of everything DD did in OotP was to keep LV from learning 
the remainder of the prophecy.  After the battle in the MoM, LV knows 
that the prophecy has smashed and the contents are lost.  DD knows 
that Harry has not got far with Occlumancy and that LV is aware of the 
connection so can access Harry's mind.  Why then does DD immediately 
tell Harry the contents of the prophecy?  Now LV can get it from 
Harry's mind.  If it was so important that LV didn't find out then why 
not continue the "Oh dear the prophecy is smashed" line.  If it's 
suddenly not really that important that LV could access it from Harry, 
why did DD have to stay away from Harry all year, leave him stewing in 
ignorance all summer and allow a situation to develop that ended up in 
the loss of one of the most important people in Harry's world?

Any thoughts?

Karen






More information about the HPforGrownups archive