THEORY: Phoenixes, Potters and You

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No: HPFGUIDX 30173


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>Probably because at that point James was already dead, so she couldn't
>have produced any more heirs by him?  Assuming that it's James who is the
>Gryffindor descendant, and not Lily (which was an interesting theory,
>btw...and I'm sorry that so many of my ideas turn out to be identical to
>those in digests I haven't read yet).
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>This take on the Order of the Phoenix is very intriguing and sounds
>entirely possible, but it makes one wonder -- if they were so sure that
>it was Harry who was the "Phoenix," why didn't they, for example, get
>Lily and James to give Harry to them so they could hide him or something
>to that effect?  And where were they when James was getting Avada
>Kedavra'ed?

My take on it was a bit like the Mentat breeding program from Dune, that 
the combination of James and Lily produced the wizard who would defeat the 
biggest baddie of all time. Pulling the OotP into this thought, perhaps 
they were the ones keeping track of the bloodlines, and knew that James was 
the last living Heir for Gryffindor. Now, perhaps there's some sort of 
genetic screening process for getting into Hogwarts (I dunno! How do they 
find wizards born to straight Muggles anyhow?) And they knew Lily and James 
were the perfect match.
Somehow Voldemort gets a hold of the information, and sets out to kill 
James and baby Harry, the OotP doesn't know he knows until it's too late...

Oh, BTW, I'm Eleri, Chronological Grown Up, and HP Junkie.