Hearing from the Great Middle & other assorted

[allies426]

No: HPFGUIDX 140135

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "houyhnhnm102" <celizwh at i...> 
wrote:

> houyhnhnm:
> 
> Why it's NOT possible that Snape could be ESE (on the side of the 
DE's):
> 
> He informed the Order of Voldemort's most critical secret.  The 
goal
> that was so important to LV that he concentrated all his energies 
on
> it and delayed the start of WWWII for a whole year.
> 
> It doesn't have to be spelled out in block letters.

Allie again:

In the sense that it delayed Voldemort's return to terrorism, MAYBE 
I'll give Snape that one.  But about the actual prophecy, my take on 
it is "so what."  I think it was much more important for Harry TO 
know the prophecy than for Voldemort NOT to know it.  Harry now 
knows that he is the ONLY ONE who can defeat Voldemort.  This 
changes everything for him - it's not just about survival anymore, 
it's up to him to actively seek and destroy Voldemort.  OTOH, I 
don't really see how it changed anything for Voldemort.  He's BEEN 
trying to kill Harry for years already, and there's nothing in the 
prophecy that tells him how to actually get it done.  I supposed he 
doesn't know that, though.  Has he given up on the prophecy now, 
thinking it's been destroyed?

The whole long, convoluted plot of OoTP seemed to me to be contrived 
for the sole purpose of killing off Sirius Black. 

Allie