[HPforGrownups] Just joined - looking for help !

[morine10 at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 6951

In a message dated 12/14/00 9:43:55 PM Eastern Standard Time, 
gkallen2 at home.com writes:


> Please forgive me if this subject has been beat to death. . .  I'm wondering 
> why Voldemort wanted to kill James and Harry?  Voldemort himself said that 
> Lily needn't have died, but she wouldn't let him kill Harry, so he had to 
> 

Welcome Kelly!  
One theory is that James (and therefore Harry) was a direct descendent of 
Godric Gryffindor.  (the Potters lived in Godric's Hollow)  In PoA Trelawney 
has a "real" prediction which Dumbledore says is her second.   The thinking 
is that her first prediction was that a descendent of Gryffindor would defeat 
the heir of Slytherin.  Somehow Voldemort new of this prediction and sought 
to destroy Gryffindor's descendents before they got to him.  Lily didn't have 
to die since she was not a blood relation to Gryffindor.  


-Mo

"Can I have a look at Uranus too, Lavender?" - Ron Weasley, Harry Potter and 
the Goblet of Fire


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