[HPforGrownups] The most fundamental question

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No: HPFGUIDX 47796

In a message dated 12/4/2002 11:58:12 PM Eastern Standard Time, 
michelle.pagan at colorado.edu writes:

> 
> But why?  Does anyone have any theory for that?  Because otherwise, I just
> don't understand the WW's preoccupation with keeping Harry so safe.  Yes,
> I know, Voldie is trying to kill him, but when I think of the terror in
> Cornelius Fudge's voice when they apparently don't know where Harry is in
> the beginning of PoA, it seems as if there is more to it:
> 

                                                                              
                                              Well, besides the obvious (he's 
the main character so lots of important things have to happen to him), I 
think we can see a similarity in the WW and our muggle world in this.  Harry 
really isn't inherently special, he is very talented and comes from a great 
family, but he wasn't born extremely powerful.  He just was saved by his 
mother's sacrifice.  He "defeated" Voldemort, so he became instantly special.

He's a lot like Elian Gonzales.  What did America have to gain by this one 
little boy?  Not much, but he became famous, a household name, because he 
*represented* a cause.  I think that Harry is like that to the WW, he 
*represents* the victory over the dark forces.  It is to his credit that he 
can actually live up to his celebrity status.

I don't think Voldemort really had a vested interest in killing baby Harry, 
but he is a reletavely smart evil overlord.  Rather than having a son who 
grows up with the sole purpose of avenging his father (like Inigo Montoya...) 
He'd rather kill a baby.  He's also probably rather mosogynistic, and doesn't 
think that Lilly is a threat.  She is, after all, just a mudblood.  And, upon 
thinking about that, I think that he would have killed her anyway, because 
who is Voldemort to care about a muggle-born?

-Scheherazade


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