Voldemort Recruiting Harry

[greg_a126]

No: HPFGUIDX 38170

Barb said:
> 
> The way I see the sequence of events is this: Trelawney predicts 
> Voldemort's fall and attributes it to Harry (or possibly to a 
> Potter, which might be why James was killed and why Voldemort 
wasn't 
> necessarily there to kill Lily, a Potter-by-marriage).  Voldemort 
> assumes it would naturally not be possible until Harry is older 
and 
> so he goes to Godric's Hollow to nip the problem in the bud.  He 
> kills James easily and figures the next step is to kill Harry and 
> his night's work is done.  But Lily gets in the way and Harry is 
> protected by her sacrifice, causing the curse to rebound upon 
> Voldemort.  
> 
> Also, in trying to kill a baby with no inherently special powers 
> except the usual magical ability of your average wizard, Voldemort 
> ironically transfers some of his own powers to Harry (Parseltongue 
> is the only one we know of, but I suspect there's more) making him 
a 
> more formidable opponent once he has further magical education and 
> learns to draw on these powers.  (Perhaps this is the reason he's 
> able to conjure a Patronus as a thirteen-year-old and why he can 
> almost immediately overcome the Imperius Curse as a fourteen-year-
> old.)  

While I do agree with most of that, I have to say I disagree with 
the: "baby with no inherently special powers" line.  In order to 
believe this, we have to believe that Lily Potter was the first 
person in the history of the Killing Curse who was willing to 
sacrifice themself for someone they loved.  Are we really to believe 
that no mother before had ever dived in front of the curse for their 
son?  Or a Husband for his wife?  How about a woman jumping in front 
of the curse to save her one true love from an ex-lover?

While I do agree that his mother's sacrifice was a necessary portion 
of his survival and without it he almost assuredly would've died, I 
just can't believe that it was the only reason.  I think it was 
something inherently "special" about Harry, combined with his 
mother's sacrifice that added up to him being the first and only 
person to ever survive the Killing Curse.  And I think whatever it 
is that's "special" about Harry is related to both PRofessor 
Trelawney's prediction, as well as why Voldemort showed no interest 
in killing Harry's mother.

"Greg"