Why were they guarding the prophecy in the first place?

[Julie Rice]

No: HPFGUIDX 130977


Bciss1 wrote
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I don't think it makes sense that they would have just
stopped guarding it after what happened to Mr.
Weasley.  After all, the attack on him just proved
that Voldemort could somehow get in.  

Julie OHio reply:

Just because there wasn't a mention of someone
guarding the prophecy (and possibly being disposed of
before Harry and his group came) doesn't mean there
wasn't one.  We just can't tell for sure.

Bciss1 wrote
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But I wonder why they didn't just destroy it in the
first place (I know, then we wouldn't have had that
whole book).  Dumbledore knew what it said, so the
order didn't need to keep it around, and it would seem
that the best way to keep anyone else from hearing it
would be to destroy it.

Julie Ohio replies

The only people who could take the prophecy from the
shelf were the people the prophecy was about.  So,
only Harry or Voldemort could have taken the prophecy.
 AFter that, anyone could have destroyed it (as so
happened).  So no one in the Order could have
destroyed it without getting Harry to take the
prophecy out.  And considering that both Harry and
Dumbledore were not in favor at the ministry and the
ministry saw no reason to believe that Voldemort was
back, there was very little chance that the prophecy
could have been destroyed.

JMO







		
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