Back to the darn prophecy again WasRe: Hearing from the Great Middle & other

[saraquel_omphale]

No: HPFGUIDX 140140

Allie wrote about 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?

Saraquel:
Now this has made me leap to the keyboard Allie.  I really can't 
agree with you on that one.  I think untangling the meaning of the 
prophecy is key to how Voldemort can kill Harry. Setting aside for a 
moment the whole issue of, if he ignored it the whole problem would 
go away.  In those key middle lines - Either must die .... IMO, 
there is a statement that informs of the nature of the actual 
entanglement which Harry and Voldemort are in - re powers/soul and 
blood.  I believe that DD wants Harry to keep the prophecy secret, 
not because he knows Voldemort wants it but knows it is effectively 
worthless, but because by contemplating it and putting it together 
with other evidence, DD worked out his plan. 

Immediately after GH, the only thing DD had to work on was the 
prophecy and whatever he could glean from what had happened prior to 
the explosion.  Armed with this knowledge, he sealed a charm on 
Harry and deposited him with the Dursley's deliberately.  By the 
time Harry was eleven, and before LV came back to give him further 
clues, he had made a plan.  We know this from OotP, when he explains 
to Harry why he didn't tell him about the prophecy sooner. The way 
he talks about it, DD hasn't changed that plan IMO in the light of 
further evidence emerging.  The prophecy definitely contains 
something, and DD IMO reckons he has worked it out, and that's why 
he is so protective of it.

I'm still revolving, rather like Professor Trelawny, as the prophecy 
spins my head!
Saraquel