[HPforGrownups] Lily, Harry, and Voldemort's demise

[Richelle Votaw]

No: HPFGUIDX 41970

Kiyari writes:

> either must be something special about Harry himself
> or possibly something hidden inside him.   Dumbledore
> has yet to tell us why Harry was to be killed in the
> first place.
>
> can do advanced magic now, he could in third year with
> his patronous.  Voldemort was afraid Harry would grow
> and defeat him so he tired to kill Harry as a baby.
> But we all know how well that idea worked out.  I'm
> anxious to know all of your opinion's on this topic.

My opinion on this matter is based on the theory that Harry is both the heir
of Gryffindor and Slytherin.  The only canon I have to support is this:

For heir of Gryffindor:

--His parents lived at (or at least were in hiding at) "Godric's Hollow."
(Godric being Gryffindor's     first name)
--When Harry first got his wand there were red and gold sparks.  Gryffindor
colors.  Sure, he
    was sorted into Gryffindor.  But surely everyone's wand doesn't produce
the color sparks of
    the house they end up being sorted into.  Or else what would be the
point of the sorting hat?
    Just have somebody at Olivanders to write it down.  And notice we have
never seen anyone
    else receive their wand to know about the sparks one way or another.
(unless I've totally
    missed it)
--Harry pulled the sword of Godric Gryffindor from the hat, which Dumbledore
later told him "only     a true Gryffindor could do."  There could be
something more to that, or else every Gryffindor
    wouldn't be true and that would mean the sorting hat makes mistakes all
the time.  Or
    Dumbledore could've been hinting that Harry was perhaps the truest
Gryffindor that can exist.

For the heir of Slytherin:

--Well, Harry did open the Chamber of Secrets.  Sure, he didn't use the
creature to petrify or kill
    people, but he did open it.  Good old Professor Binns stated "The heir
alone would be able to
    unseal the Chamber of Secrets."  Harry didn't open it for the same
reasons as Tom Riddle,
    but he did open it.  Of course, he only could do that because he's a
parseltounge.  Which is
    very rare, but that's about all we know.  It could be rare enough to
mean only the true heirs of
    Slytherin have it.
--Harry's green eyes.  JKR has stated there's something very important that
he doesn't know yet
    about his eyes, and Slytherin is the only connection I can make due to
them being green--
    bright green to be exact.  It's also interesting that we don't know what
color eyes Tom Riddle
    had.  We see them take on a red gleam, which would mean they weren't
always red.

Anyway, if all those things would happen to work out to Harry being the heir
of Gryffindor and Slytherin he would be more powerful than possibly any
other wizard.  The earlier you can kill him, the better in Voldemort's point
of view.

Other points, what about James?  If James was the heir of Gryffindor only
that would mean Lily had to be the heir of Slytherin, which opens up a new
barrell of apples.  I won't get into that today, though.  If the green eyes
are anything to do with Slytherin, she has to be.  Otherwise, it's possible
that James was both heirs as well, I suppose, and Voldemort only just became
aware of it or something, therefore hadn't tried to kill him before.

Richelle