"Toon" <toon@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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> On Mon, 13 Oct 2008 13:47:21 +1100, Welsh Dog <welshdog@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> wrote:
>
>>On Sun, 12 Oct 2008 16:55:23 -0700, Harry James Potter
>><HJPotter@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>
>>>could not the Death Eaters simply broken the prophesy
>>>glass sphere and listened to the prophesy? Harry and
>>>friends broken many and heard those, mostly one over another,
>>>but clearly there was precedence that breaking a sphere
>>>not associated with oneself could be done and then hear
>>>what the prophesy was about.
>>
>>Good point really! Why didn't Voldemort or whoever just knock the
>>glass off the shelf with a pole of something??
>>
>>Maybe because Voldemort wanted to listen to it himself and not let the
>>others know what it said in case it undermined his power over them!
>>
>>After all... if the prophecy said outright Harry would kill Voldemort
>>then they'd know he was a lost cause regardless how much he
>>protested!! :)
>>
>>Welshdog
>
> And if it said how to kill, anybody could try it. While he looks down
> on kids, he knows there are powerful wizards out there. And teamwork
> can work wonders against a Dark Lord.
Thanks - that was another detail I wasn't really convinced by: why he
didn't
get a DE to listen to it for him, or get it himself. But it seems like, as
well as not wanting to risk going to the MoM himself, Voldy also didn't
dare
risk anyone other than him overhearing what the prophecy said in case they
were a traitor to his cause and got ideas. So, he instructed his DEs to
get
someone to retrieve it but not break it and listen to it - that was for
him
(and his ears) alone. Even when they went in after Harry, their
instructions
were to get it back to Voldy intact.
But he didn't have a choice once it seemed his DEs might lose the battle,
and as he definitely didn't want any DEs hearing the prophecy - or Harry,
should he live - he had to turn up in person when things started going
pear-shaped.
DaveD
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