Timeline for Why does the Department of Mysteries keep prophecies?
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| Feb 15, 2017 at 11:30 | comment | added | Invoker | But you're right in the This is the part of time they don't understand the future. | |
| Feb 15, 2017 at 10:50 | comment | added | Invoker | But do those prophecies really testify a crime's culprit? Say for example, there's a prophecy there where Voldemort killed Dumbledore. For instance, there's a report Dumbledore was murdered by an anonymous character and they frame it to Voldemort because he was the one inside the prophecy, but he didn't kill him. And like what Dumbledore said, sometimes prophecies can be fulfilled, can be not, can be fulfilled when the one inside it puts an attention with it. | |
| Feb 14, 2017 at 18:55 | comment | added | EvSunWoodard | @Darthfett - The reason I included it is because of the limited scope the movies/books actually show. While they do occasionally say that they have to do an assignment on transfiguration theory in the later books, the never do in the movies and it is pretty glossed over. Everything in magic is actually science, really advanced physics with a wand. The Department of Mysteries is trying to break down even the most abstract things, like love, and make them into things you can quantify. Prophecy is on that list for the same reason Hermione doesn't like it. It's a 'willy subject'. | |
| Feb 14, 2017 at 18:05 | comment | added | Casey Kuball | +1 mainly for the section on Prophecy and the last sentence. The rest of it doesn't seem very relevant, unless you haven't read the books or watched the movies. | |
| Feb 14, 2017 at 17:54 | comment | added | Grant | Only person to ever survive the curse, sure. But not the only person to be saved by love. | |
| Feb 14, 2017 at 17:01 | comment | added | EvSunWoodard | He is constantly referred to as "The only person ever to survive the killing curse." Maybe he isn't really, but that's definitely how he is perceived. | |
| Feb 14, 2017 at 16:46 | comment | added | Grant | I don't think Harry was the first child ever saved by love. Voldemort said it was old magic that he should have remembered. So though it's maybe not commonly used, it is still known about and must have been used before. | |
| Feb 14, 2017 at 16:39 | history | answered | EvSunWoodard | CC BY-SA 3.0 |