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Harry rages at Dumbledore, but when Dumbledore claims responsibility for Sirius' death, Harry is subdued. Dumbledore admits that if he had been more open, Harry would have realized that Voldemort was luring Harry into a trap at the Department of Mysteries. Dumbledore explains to a still seething Harry that when Voldemort gave him his scar, it also left a mental connection between him and Harry. Voldemort discovered this gateway after [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Arthur Weasley|Mr. Weasley]] was attacked, and then began intruding into Harry's thoughts. Dumbledore says that is why he had insisted Harry study [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Magic/Occlumency|Occlumency]] and why he remained aloof from Harry all year, fearing that Voldemort would try harder to break into Harry's mind if he suspected there was more than a teacher-to-student relationship between them, or that Voldemort would gain valuable information through him.
Dumbledore says [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Kreacher|Kreacher]] lied to Harry when he tried to contact Sirius, who was actually tending to [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Buckbeak|Buckbeak]]. After Harry warned [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Severus Snape|Professor Snape]] in [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Dolores Umbridge|Umbridge]]'s office, Snape checked to see that Sirius was safe. But when Harry failed to return from the [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Places/Forbidden Forest|Forbidden Forest]], he alerted the [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Major Events/Order of the Phoenix|Order]], who then went to the [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Places/Ministry of Magic|Ministry]]. Snape wanted Sirius to remain at [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Places/Grimmauld Place|Headquarters]], but Sirius ordered Kreacher to tell Dumbledore what happened, and then left for the Ministry for the others. Dumbledore learned from Kreacher aboutthat the lie thathe had been toldlied to Harry, and that Kreacher's instructions hadcame originated with the last member of the Black family that Kreacher respected:from [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Narcissa Malfoy|Narcissa Malfoy]]. Kreacher couldwas notprevented betrayfrom betraying the Order totallydirectly, but he couldwas revealable to Narcissareveal thatenough theinformation oneto thingNarcissa that would always bringlead Harry wasinto a threat to Sirius Blacktrap.
HarryDumbledore is angryclaims that Snape disbelievedhad himto whenbehave heas toldif Snapehe whatdisbelieved wasHarry's happening; Dumbledore says that Snape had to behave thatwarning waywhile in Umbridge's presence. Harryso argueshe thatcould Snapeprotect hadhis beenposition usingwithin Occlumencythe toOrder. softenDumbledore himalso updiscounts forHarry's Voldemort,accusation sayingthat hisSnape scarused alwaysOcclumency hurtto worseopen afterHarry's amind lessonto Voldemort. Dumbledore reiterates his complete faith in Snape's loyalty., Hethough he regrets not teaching Harry himself, butfearing he feared itVoldemort could give Voldemort access to his own thoughts. Sadly, he underestimated Snape's deep, lingering resentments towards [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/James Potter|Harry's father]].
Dumbledore nowgoes explainson whyto theexplain infantwhy Harry was placed with the Dursleys rather than with a wizardingWizarding family, althoughthough many offered to adopt the orphaned boy. When [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Lily Potter|Lily Potter]] was killed defending her son, her sacrifice created a magical shield that protected Harry from Voldemort. However, the protection only remains in effect as long as Harry lives in his mother's blood relatives' home—that relative is [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Petunia Dursley|Aunt Petunia]]. Dumbledore was convinced thatConvinced Voldemort would return, and hisDumbledore's priority was to keepprotect Harry alive. The [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Magic/Howler|Howler]] Petunia received was aDumbledore's stern reminder fromthat Dumbledoreshe of herwas obligationobligated to protect Harry.
Dumbledore tells Harry that the reasonsays Voldemort had triedwanted to kill him wasHarry because of a [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Magic/Prophecy|prophecy]] that had been made shortly before Harry's birth. While Voldemort never knew of the prophecy, and some of theentire prophecy itself, he did not know the whole, and had been trying to retrieve itthe tocopy find outto whatlearn itits saidcontents.
Harry tells Dumbledore thatknows the prophecy's wascontents destroyed, but Dumbledore says only a copy ofbecause the originalit was lost.originally He knows the contents because it wastold to him that the prophecy was first revealed. Sixteen years ago, Dumbledore interviewed [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Sybill Trelawney|Sybill Trelawney]] for the Divination position, meeting her at a pub in [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Places/Hogsmeade|Hogsmeade]]. Although she was descended from a gifted Seer, she herself seemed minimally talented. Saying she was not acceptable for the post, Dumbledore was about to leave.
Dumbledore stops speaking, and, producing the [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Magic/Pensieve|Pensieve]], extracts a memory from his mind and places it therein. Sybill Trelawney's veiled image rises, and in the harsh voice Harry [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Books/Prisoner of Azkaban/Chapter 16|heard once before]], says, ''"The one with the power to vanquish the Dark Lord approaches... born to those who have thrice defied him, born as the seventh month dies... and the Dark Lord will mark him as his equal, but he will have power the Dark Lord knows not... and either must die at the hand of the other for neither can live while the other survives... the one with the power to vanquish the Dark Lord will be born as the seventh month dies..."''
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