[HPforGrownups] Re: Trelawney's First Interview

[Jordan Abel]

No: HPFGUIDX 169142

> "K":
>
> Why would Dumbledore want Voldemort to know about the prophecy? If
> Voldemort never hears of it and no action is taken, the prophecy is
> worthless, isn't it?

Dumbledore doesn't necessarily want a prophecy predicting (the
possibility of) Voldemort's downfall to be worthless.

The idea that, in essence, the Potters' and Longbottoms' lives are a
risk DD is willing to take, was more popular before HBP than now,
since it wasn't clear then that DD _wasn't_ intentionally being
written that way (one of the reasons for some of the scenes in HBP
clarifying that dumbledore is _not_ in fact a manipulative bastard)

--Random832