very basic confusion

[Inge]

No: HPFGUIDX 163732

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Steve" <bboyminn at ...> wrote:
<<<..(SNIP SNIP SNIP)..Snape told Voldemort about the Prophecy, though, 
accordingto the books, Snape only heard the first part of the
Prophecy. From what Snape told Voldemort, he had enough information to 
conclude that it was about a child thatwas about to be born in at the 
end of the next up coming month of July. 
 
Now, the Prophecy doesn't specify a year. It could have been a child 
born this year, next year, or ten years from now, but a reasonable 
interpretation is that it means the next up coming month of July. 
 
Regardless of what the /correct/ interpretation of the Prophecy was, 
Voldemort gathered the information and made his choices, and those 
choices /created/ a correct interpretation of the Prophecy. In a sense, 
Voldemort's own actions made it a self-fulfilling Prophecy... >>>
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NOW:
Inge,
agreeing to everything Steve explained - but one answer still remains -
 "why did it take so long, more than a year after Harry's birth, before 
the Potters set up their protection?"