[HPforGrownups] Re: DD's plan -- Minister of Magic

[Bart Lidofsky]

No: HPFGUIDX 189168

Pippin:
> If Dumbledore believed in the prophecy, he wouldn't have thought he needed to make Harry do anything. He could have left everything to chance. His disbelief, ironically, made him act to bring the prophecy about.
>    

Bart:
     I think that, more precisely, DD did not think that prophecy was 
inevitable. He did not so much act to bring the prophecy about as take 
advantage of the fact that Morty believed it, so that DD could control 
the way the prophecy came out.

     Bart