The Keeper of the Hall of Prophesies

[carodave92]

No: HPFGUIDX 156101

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "steven1965aaa" 
<steven1965aaa at ...> wrote:
>
> In HBP Dumbledore tells Harry, in the broom closet, that the only 
2 
> people alive who know the full contents of the prophesy are in 
this 
> spidery broom closet (not an exact quote, don't have the books 
with 
> me).
> 
> 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.
> 
> I guess he could have known just about the first half, being told 
> about it by Dumbledore, but his decision to put Harry's name on it 
> after the attack ("mark him") would make a lot more sense if he 
knew 
> the full contents.  
> 
> If the Keeper potentially knows the contents, why wouldn't 
Voldemort 
> go after the Keeper?  Maybe Voldemort doesn't know.  Maybe the 
> keeper who knew the contents of the prophesy is dead and the 
current 
> Keeper doesn't know the contents, which would make Dubmledore's 
> statement to Harry true.  Maybe as an unspeakable there would be 
> something to magicallly prevent the Keeper from blabbing.  
> 
> Sorry I'm rambling.  Any thoughts?

Carodave:
Maybe at that point in time Dumbledore was the Keeper, in addition 
to his Hogwarts duties?
>