A Dark Glamour - Voldemort's Appeal - DDs Complicity

[a_svirn]

No: HPFGUIDX 179519

> > Mike:
> > We've now leaped into the formative stage of what to do once the 
> > prophesy has gotten to LV. Before that, when DD had the chance to 
> > Obliviate or Legilimens Snape, is where my big questions come in. 
> > This is when DD shows his contempt for prophesies, imo. He really 
> > doesn't care if Snape heard it, nor if Snape is going to take it 
> to 
> > LV. He doesn't believe in the damn things. 

a_svirn:
Oh, I don't believe for a moment that he had contempt for prophesies. 
I think he either deliberately fed Voldemort the abridged version, or 
realised very quickly how that eventuality might be turned to good 
account. But what about himself? Did he swallow the whole thing hook, 
line and sinker, as Voldemort did with the edited version? I believe 
he did.

Dumbledore's crazy schemes would not make any more sense even then, 
but it would at least explain why he took it upon himself to play 
God. Rowling herself brought up Macbeth allusion in order to explain 
Voldemort's part of the intrigue. Voldemort, like Macbeth "yielded" 
to the Prophesy's "suggestion" and thereby sealed his fate. But it 
seems to me that Dumbledore fell into the same trap. He too tried 
to "trade and traffic in riddles and affairs of death". Granted, he 
was – unlike his adversary – concerned with "the Greater Good", 
rather than with anyone's individual fate (including his own and 
Harry's). But his own very individual version of the Greater Good was 
the fulfilment of the Prophesy as he saw it. It was his symbol of 
faith – everything had to be subjugated to the single goal. That's 
why the Resistance, the lives of members of the Order, muggles and 
mugglebornes, the Ministry etc. didn't really matter. What mattered 
was for Harry to fulfil his destiny. But since he was 
constitutionally incapable of trusting, he couldn't trust Harry or, 
indeed, Destiny. He had to arrange everything himself, even from 
beyond the grave. But this is just as presumptions as Voldemort's 
daring. And as dangerous and immoral, in fact.