Harry's blood; Harry's uniqueness

[Kelley]

No: HPFGUIDX 4262

--- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, "Susan McGee" <Schlobin at a...> wrote:
Susan:
> But why Harry? Just because he "lived" and was (until Rita Skeeter)
> the toast of the Wizard/Witch world? 

Kelley:
"Why Harry?" is exactly the question we're wondering.  Not only did 
he live--didn't either Moody or Hagrid say 'no one lived once Vold 
decided to kill them'? or something like that, but Vold's powers were 
completely destroyed from his encounter with Harry...

Susan: 
> I think..that it is very significant that Voldemort was on his way
> to murder Harry, and Lily "got in the way". Voldemort loves to kill 
> and there is seemingly no reason why he didn't kill Lily first, and 
> then kill Harry. But doesn't Lily plead with him to kill her first 
> (my GofF is missing!) Harry was his target. (Reminds me of Herod 
and 
> his quest to kill Jesus)

Kelley:
Oh, I think this is very significant, too--the fact that Vold says 
Lily 'didn't have to die', was he being truthful?

Susan: 
> Is there a prophecy that Harry will grow up to destroy Voldemort?

Kelley:
We don't know; Dumble comments that Trelawney has only made two 
correct predictions, we aren't told what the first one was...  The 
second one was in PoA, when she goes into her trance, and tells Harry 
that Vold's servant (Pettigrew) would return to him and help bring 
him back to power.  Dumble says "That brings her total of real 
predictions up to two.  I should offer her a pay raise..." <g>

Susan: 
> I would guess that Harry is one of/or the last remaining DESCENDANT 
> (not ancestor) of Godric Gryffindor..and that oooh, perhaps Salazar 
> Slytherin passed on some magical ability to Voldemort and GG passed 
> some on to Harry, and the conflict between Voldemort and Harry is a 
> reflection of the conflict between Salazar and Godric. As such, the 
> Sorting Hat (which, remember, is what GG left to sort the students 
> after his death, compare it to Riddle's diary)gave Harry the sword 
of 
> GG.

Kelley:
Hadn't thought about the 'SS and GG passed on some magical abilities 
to Vold and Harry' part,--very intriguing; sounds very likely, too, 
since Harry seems to be 'stronger' as a wizard in many ways than the 
other kids.  But as for the rest, I definitely agree.  I believe they 
will continue and most likely, conclude the conflict between their 
ancestors, SS and GG.

Susan: 
> OR maybe AD is also a descendant of GG and in a ritual of the Order 
> of the Phoenix passes on some special ability (now ***I*** am 
> referring to Katherine Kurtz) to HP. 
> 
> So perhaps we will have the showdown at the OK corral between the 
> last descendant of SS and the last descendant of GG.

Kelley:
I am in total and complete agreement.  These points also support 
Harry being 'special,' referring to why he's Vold's main target--the 
first part of the conversation at the top.
 
> Or maybe I should go write some fan fiction. ---Susan

Yay!  Go for it, you can never have enough good fanfic.  Especially 
if we may have a two (!) year wait...  ---Kelley