Voldermort learning the prophecy?

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 165224


> SSSusan:
> Right.  That *was* weird that, after all his efforts in OotP, he just 
> then gave up on it.  We knew that DD figured Voldy would stop going 
> at it the *way* he had in that year, by boring into Harry's thoughts 
> via their mind connection, but why didn't he seem to be working on it 
> in at all HBP?
> 

Pippin:
I think the real mystery is why Voldemort didn't try to hear the
full text of the prophecy before GH.  Surely with Rookwood in place, 
smuggling himself into the ministry to lift the prophecy from its 
shelf would not have been impossible. Yet it seems he never tried.
Was it because he thought he knew the full text already? From
Snape or some other spy?

After GH, of course, Voldemort would be having doubts about the
veracity of his spy (or spies), and he would be obsessed with using
the record at the ministry to check on them. But with that destroyed,
there'd be no record Dumbledore didn't have access to, and so no
record that Voldemort could be sure had not been tampered with.

Pippin