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[anne_t_squires]

No: HPFGUIDX 168644

 "Eric Oppen"  wrote:

Snip of first question.

--if Dumbledore knew that LV was panting to get his stupid hands on 
> that stupid prophecy, why didn't he hide it someplace safe 

Snip

Anne Squires responds:

I don't think DD cares if LV knows the entire prophecy.  The whole DoM
was a setup, imho.  DD was just trying to flush LV out into the open
to prove to the WW that LV had returned.  I really don't think DD
believes the prophecy, but I think DD believes that LV believes in it,
especially after Harry's escape from the graveyard in GoF.  At any
rate, I think DD, through Snape, was encouraging LV's obsession about
learning the whole prophecy.  DD wanted LV to go to the DoM.  He also
wanted at lot of Ministry witnesses to this.  Getting LV to be
manipulated into doing this was the whole point of OotP.