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[brooksindy]

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From: brooksindy
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Date: 7/31/00 10:37 pm  (ET)

I ran this by a friend last week; she thought it was interesting, and
I have added a few thoughts since then.

WARNING HIGHLY SPECULATIVE BUT IF RIGHT A POTENTIAL SPOILER FOR WHOLE
SERIES!!!!
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What if Harry was conceived and born, not just as a kid whom circumstances
thrust this greatness upon, and who will presumably live up to it,
but rather BY DESIGN to be Voldemort's opposite - and nemesis?
Magic perhaps being worked before he was born to ensure he would emerge
with certain traits. That would explain in ways that being perhaps a
relative does not, why Harry has so many traits in common with Voldy, but
is not twisted like him. James & Lily may very well have been destined
for each other anyway, and the fact (if correct) that Harry was meant
as the nemesis would not diminish the mother's love - but what if the
real heroes of this whole story are Dumbledore, James & Lily who took
an immediate and long term plan to eliminate Voldy?
Alternately, - just thought of this one - perhaps the reason Snape is
mad is not so much that he wanted Lily, but James won out; but rather
that it was clear that J&L were the ones capable of breeding a child
who would have the traits to be Voldy's nemesis, and Snape did not?
This needs a lot more working out, but it might explain some of the
hidden undisclosed thoughts of Dumbledore in first book: more or less:
"There are things I cannot tell you yet as to why Voldemort's attack on
you did not work; you'll have to be older and you'll just have to accept
that for now".

And what keeps it from being a piece of nastiness on the part of the
supposed good guys, is that they like and respect Harry for himself, not
just as a weapon in the long term scheme to defeat Voldemort permanently.

Again, highly speculative, but it has a certain feel to it... so of
course it is probably not at all what JKR has up her sleeve. :-)

-Brooks