Trelawney's First Interview

[montavilla47]

No: HPFGUIDX 169152

> "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?

Random832: 
> 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)

Montavilla47:
Random, can you point to those scenes in HBP that clarify DD as
*not* a manipulative bastard?  Because, I didn't think that he 
might be one until I saw that disgraceful scene with the Dursleys.