The Keeper of the Hall of Prophesies

[houyhnhnm102]

No: HPFGUIDX 156053

steven1965aaa wrote:


> In OOP, in the scene in Dumbledore's office at the 
> end, Dumbledore tells Harry that the Keeper of the Hall 
> of Prophesies inserted Harry's name (with a (?)) on the 
> prophesy after Voldmort's attack on the Potter family, 
> because that attack made it clear which boy Voldemort 
> believed to be the one named in the prophesy.

> It seems to me that for the Keeper to have come to 
> that conclusion, and even for the Keeper to have known 
> that there was a question about which boy was "the one 
> with the power to vanquish the Dark Lord", the Keeper 
> must have know about the contents of the prophesy.

houyhnhnm:

S.P.T to A.P.W.B.D
Dark Lord and (?) Harry Potter

I'm assuming that everything up to "Harry Potter" was on the original 
label.

What your question has got me wondering is how does a prophecy get 
into the Department of Mysteries?  It can't happen automatically every 
time someone makes a prediction or the Hall would be full "Gryffindor 
(Slytherin/Hufflepuff/Ravenclaw) is going to win the House Cups This 
Year"s.  Does the person who hears it (and believes s/he has heard a 
true prophecy) request that it be added?  It must be so.

Obviously, there is some kind of spell involved that puts not only the 
contents but an image of the seer into the ball.  Who casts it?

I am thinking that it was probably Dumbledore who cast the spell that 
created the prophecy globe, and he also either wrote the label or 
dictated what was to be written.  In that case, the label only read 
"Dark Lord and (?) until the WW shattering event of LV's defeat by the 
Boy Who Lived.  The Keeper then added "Harry Potter".  He would not 
have needed to know anthing at all about the contents of the prophecy, 
let alone the fact that there were two possible identities for (?), 
only that the prophecy involved a Dark Lord and an unknown, and then 
take it for granted after LV's defeat that the Dark Lord was Voldemort 
and the unknown person was Harry Potter.