[HPforGrownups] Harry & Voldemort's

[Doreen]

No: HPFGUIDX 14880

Doreen wrote:

>maybe he was not going to kill Lily
>because he was going to "use her" to raise Harry ... for his own
>purposes, rather than that purpose for which Harry was born. Maybe
>that is what Lily was really trying to protect Harry from ... and
>also why Voldemort stated that Lily didn't really have to die.

>Now, that the plan has all gone amuck, and Harry has reached an age
>of reasoning and is against Voldemort, he is left with only one
>choice. Destroy Harry before Harry becomes old enough and strong
>enough to destroy him. 

Okay, I really like this, and it's supported by Voldemort's attempt to 
win Harry to his side in PS/SS (a fairly feeble attempt, but 
still...).  But then why did he try to kill Harry when he was still a 
baby?

Come on, don't give up--I know you can figure out a good reason!

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Do we know for a fact that Voldemort was trying to kill Harry? 
Where is the proof of that? 
Who were the witnesses? 
Sirius knew that James & possibly Lily were in danger .. the reason for them to hide and Pettigrew to keep their secret.
Why were they in danger? Because of themselves, or because they had Harry?
IMO Harry is the one that Voldemort was after. 
I think the only reason he killed James was because James was his biggest barrier to Harry. 
I dont think Harry was an afterthought but the main reason for Voldemort's visit.
Hagrid & Sirius & Dumbledore knew that Voldemort did, indeed, kill James & Lily, but not Harry.
Why didn't the MOM show up and take the proper steps in the case of an orphaned wizard child?
Why was Harry so special that Hagrid was specifically dispatched by Dumbledore to get to Harry before anyone else could? 
Even Sirius knew the importance of being there first, thereby lending Hagrid his flying motorcycle.
How do we know what spell was used by Voldemort and for what reasons?
Even in Harry's visions, brought on by the Dementors or the Boggarts, does it say that Voldemort was going to kill Harry?
What if the fate that Voldemort had intended for Harry was far worse than killing him, at least in a mother & father's mind? I am sure we can come up with similar instances where parents kill their own children and then kill themselves, rather than face fates worse than death.
Could Voldemort have made a grab for Harry ... and at the same time, Lily grabbed V's wand, and in an attempt to turn it against Voldemort, weakened, but not killed him, and because he was holding Baby Harry, Harry ended up with the scar?
Could Lily and Voldemort have had a standoff kind of battle, which resulted in Harry getting the scar (possibly from a ray deflected off of Voldemort?) and because of the "mother's love power," Lily was able to render Voldemort into his weakened state? 
Was it this great mother-love power that gave her magic added strength? (her wand was not all that special... good for charms but maybe with her mothers-love, it was the edge she needed, not to kill V but to weaken him)
If Lily zapped Voldemort, and because he was touching or holding Harry, and the power of the wand transferred from V to Harry, could this be the explanation as to why the Sorting Hat chose Slytherin first for Harry ... acting on the Voldemort transfer of character vibes in Harry? 
Is this also the reason Harry is a parselmouth?
I never did understand why Voldemort zapping Harry with a spell from his wand would have a backlash effect on Voldemort himself. If this backlash was effective enough to weaken V .. coming from Harry to Voldemort... if Harry got the parselmouth, why didn't Voldemort get some of Harry's good traits? 
I also never understood why a spell from V's wand would transfer anything from and of Voldemort's character, or if it did, why is Harry so nice and not evil like Voldemort?

So many questions ... and so much time ... is it 2001 yet?
Doreen, whose scar is hurting from too much thinking


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