Yet another prophecy question

[Geoff Bannister]

No: HPFGUIDX 130878

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, hells456 <hells456 at y...> wrote:
 
Hells:
 
> I believe that Dumbledore showed Harry an edited version of the 
prophesy and that he will reveal the rest later. The information in 
the prophecy was rather pointless in my mind, we didn't really learn 
anything that we hadn't already guessed. No part of it should have 
been described as  "a weapon of sorts".

Geoff:
Personally, I have nmy doubts that Dumbledore showed Harry an edited 
version.

Just looking at the relevant piece for a moment:

'A figure rose out of it, draped in shawls, her eyes magnified to 
enormous size behind her glasses and she revolved slowly,her feet in 
the basin. But when Sybill Trelawney spoke, it was not in her usual 
ethereal, mystic voice, but in the harsh, hoarse tones Harry had 
heard her use once before:

"The one with the power to vanquish the Dark Lord approaches... born 
to those who have thrice defied him, born as the seventh month 
dies... and the Dark Lord will mark him as his equal but he will have 
power the Dark Lord knows not.. and either must die at the hand of 
the other for neither can live while the other survives... the one 
with the power to vanquish the Dark Lord will be born as the seventh 
month dies..."

The slowly revolving Professor Trelawney sank back into the silver 
mass below and vanished.'

(OOTP "The Lost Prophecy"  p.741 UK edition)

This looks to me like a complete replay of Dumbledore's stored 
memory. 

As a corollary to Hells' comment, this throws up the question 
of "editing" a Pensieve memory. Surely it is not being suggested that 
you can take your own stored memory and actually alter it - 
amalgamating, modifying it so that it does not reflect the actual 
real events?

This seems that you could almost perform memory modification on 
yourself.... So that you end up with a different set of memories to 
reality? That could lead to some very strange results and sounds a 
potentially dangerous procedure.