Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix Book 5 - Chapter 37 Part 4

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix Book 5 - Chapter 37 Part 4

burden upon you before this. My only defense is this: I have watched you struggling under more burdens than any student who has ever passed through this school, and I could not bring myself to add another — the greatest one of all.” Harry waited, but Dumbledore did not speak. “I still don’t understand.” “Voldemort tried to kill you when you were a child because of a prophecy made shortly before your birth. He knew the prophecy had been made, though he did not know its full contents. He set out to kill you when you were still a baby, believing he was fulfilling the terms of the prophecy. He discovered, to his cost, that he was mistaken, when the curse intended to kill you backfired. And so, since his return to his body, and particularly since your extraordinary escape from him last year, he has been determined to hear that prophecy in its entirety. This is the weapon he has been seeking so assiduously since his return: the knowledge of how to destroy you.” The sun had risen fully now. Dumbl…