Sirius, was : Lupin, mon amour

[pippin_999]

Rita:
> I thought Sirius knew about the Prophecy because James & Lily had 
> told him. They chose Sirius to be Harry's godfather and to be Harry's
> guardian if something happened to them, in a context where it was not
> unlikely that something would happen to them. Surely they would have
> wanted to keep their understudy informed of the baby's medical
> history, favorite toys, AND any significant prophecies that led
> Voldemort to want to kill him.

Pippin:
That's what I thought too, at first.  But would James and Lily have told
Sirius, would they  have even known, that a copy of the prophecy had
been stored in the Department of Mysteries? That might  have
been known to Dumbledore and the DoM staff alone. 

Something that puzzles me is why Voldemort didn't question Rookwood
about recovering the prophecy before he decided to attack at Godric's Hollow.
But maybe Voldemort didn't know  that Dumbledore had the means of 
recalling the whole thing, and thought that the last part of the prophecy 
had gone unheard in the uproar over Snape's discovery. Voldemort may
not be aware of all the uses of a pensieve. But it also might be that
the attack was more a crime of opportunity -- maybe Voldemort delayed
so long because he was debating whether to go after one of the two
children or the prophecy itself, and then the Secret Keeper switch gave
him the Potters.

But maybe one of the things that enabled Snape to slither back into Voldemort's
good graces was the report that the entire prophecy had been stored at the
MoM.

Pippin