Why Voldemort wanted the Potters dead?

[Tina Smart]

No: HPFGUIDX 14135

Dave said:


>Given that Voldemort is someone whose thinking is not exactly that
>of a normal rational person, is it possible that the reason that he
>wants Harry dead is simply because he's persuaded that the Potter
>family are genetically corrupt and degenerate and that they *all*
>must be exterminated to save all of Wizard-kind?


To me it seems Voldemort wants power over everything. And he will get rid of 
anyone or thing that is in his way. Rowling says this, I think at the 
beginning of book four, when Volde is talking to Pettingrew about killing 
Harry and the old man is found (and killed. Voldemort said something about 
getting rid of muggles (and anyone else) who's in the way, including his 
father). He killed his own father because he was a muggle. But the potters 
had skill or power in wizardry, and so they had to be destroyed before they 
could team up with others to destroy him. Or even if they couldn't do that, 
they could certainly make a neusance out of themselves.
Then again, if they could make a neusance out of them selves why was it so 
easy for Voldemort to kill them?

Now I've lost myself ;)

Tina.
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