Voldermort learning the prophecy?

[houyhnhnm102]

No: HPFGUIDX 165230

SSSusan:

> See, that's just it. I can't figure out how knowing the full 
> prophecy WOULD change much. ??? So he'd know for certain 
> (if he interprets it how DD & Harry did) that either he's gotta 
> kill the little snot or the little snot's gonna kill him, but since 
> he's ALREADY determined to kill the little snot, it wouldn't 
> exactly mark a change in his strategy.

houyhnhnm:

Since *we* know the whole prophecy, we can see that LV's knowing
it would not change much, but Voldemort doesn't know what it is
he doesn't know.  So, for all he knows, the rest of the prophecy might
contain the secret of Harry's defeat.

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.

houyhnhnm:

That's an interesting thought.  Perhaps LV's motive in going 
after the prophecy had less to do with finding a way to defeat 
Harry and more to do with finding out whether he had been lied 
to originally.

The whole prophecy timeline is murky to me.  I wouldn't be 
surprised if a major twist in connection with it is revealed 
in DH.

I can't even remember if we heard directly or indirectly from 
Voldemort that he *knew* there was more to the prophecy, or 
if we are just assuming he did from Dumbledore's words to Harry. 
(And neither do I think we can *assume* that he knew about 
Trelawney.)  I really need to start re-reading the whole 
series again from the beginning.