The Prophecy and Its Reference to LV

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No: HPFGUIDX 148015

--- "hpfan_mom" <rdsilverstein at ...> wrote:
>
> hpfan_mom:
> 
> Just looking at the prophecy again (oh yeah, another exciting Friday
> night), and wondered if there'd been posts on this before.
> 
> Trelawney (or the prophecy for which she's the mouthpiece) does not
> name LV as You Know Who, or He Who Must Not Be Named, or Voldemort, or
> Tom Riddle. The prophecy refers to him four times as the Dark Lord. 
> (Page 841, OOTP, US edition)
> 
> IIRC, that's what the DEs call him.  What could be the significance 
> of that?  And that's how the prophecy is labeled, Dark Lord and (?) 
> Harry Potter.  (Page 780)  Who is the keeper of the Hall of 
> Prophecy, the wizard who labeled the official record?  (Page 842)
> 
> hpfan_mom
>

On page 779, the writing is referred to as "spidery."  This leads
me to believe that perhaps the person who wrote the label was Snape. 
Perhaps Dumbledore entrusted it to him as a test, to see if he would
want to hear the whole thing.  Perhaps he did hear the whole thing,
and has proceeded to obscure half of it from Voldemort.

Harry's name was added later by the Keeper, after Voldemort's downfall.

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