[HPforGrownups] Grandpa Voldemort

[Richelle Votaw]

No: HPFGUIDX 40408

Ronale7 writes:

>I'm a firm believer in Voldemort being Harry's grandfather.  I think
>Tom Riddle sired James Potter.  My scenario goes like this: Voldemort
>wanted to kill at least James because he had heard a prediction that
>a son of James would one day be his downfall.  If he could kill
>Harry, and James to prevent him siring other sons, then he could
>avoid his fate.  I call this the fatal child theory (see my post
>38784).  It does explain why Voldemort and Harry look somehat alike
>and why Voldemort wouldn't care whether Lily died.

How does this explain that Riddle is James' father and not Lily?    I agree
with the scenario that Voldemort/Riddle killed James and tried to kill Harry
to end that bloodline.  However, I just can't picture Voldemort being a
softie who stands there and repeatedly tells Lily to "Stand aside."  That's
on more than one occasion based on the wording, possibly as many as four
times he tells her to "stand aside" before killing her.  Isn't that an
awfully big waste of time?  Why spend all that time telling her to get out
of the way?  Why not just kill her and be done with it as he killed James?
It just doesn't fit Voldemort's mold to simply not care if she died or not
and take the time out to try to get her to move away from Harry.  Unless he
knew that something would happen to protect Harry if she died protecting
him, which I don't think he did.  I'm also still confused why it was Lily's
sacrifice that protected Harry from Quirrell/Voldemort when James also died
to protect him.  Both of them, actually.

Richelle