The death of Emmeline Vance (WAS: Re: Snape the Spy )

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 167825

Jen R:
> But then I'm still trying to figure out the whole point of the guard
> at the door to begin with!  Dumbledore knows only LV or Harry can
> pick up the orb so the guard isn't really guarding the orb because
> how could one person keep Voldemort from entering the room?? 

Pippin:
According to Lupin, Voldemort's strategy was to keep the DE's
quiet and the Wizarding World in ignorance of his return until 
he had rebuilt his organization. The Order, IMO, tempted
him to abandon this strategy  with disinformation  -- that the 
Prophecy contained information about how to destroy Harry. 
As Voldemort did not know that only he or Harry could retrieve
the prophecy, he might be tempted to send Death Eaters
to steal it. 

The Ministry, you will recall, was denying Voldemort's return
and blaming the mass breakout from Azkaban on Sirius Black.
If the Order could catch  DE's in the act of breaking in to the
DoM and then trimphantly produce evidence that Sirius 
Black had been in the custody of the Order the whole time, 
it would go a long way to convince people that Dumbledore
and Harry were telling the truth.

But once Voldemort was aware that only he or Harry could
retrieve the prophecy, a guard was no longer necessary.
If the prophecy was stolen and Harry could not possibly
have taken it, that would be proof in itself of Voldemort's
return.

Pippin