Why did Voldemort want to kill Harry? + Trelawney

[lucky_kari]

No: HPFGUIDX 36234

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., Ms Lizard Gizzard <lizgiz1980 at y...> wrote:
> In the first book, I believe, Professor Quirrell was
> boasted that he would hand over to Voldemort "the last
> Potter."  So for whatever unexplained reason, Harry is
> the last living Potter, and it is this fact that he is
> a danger to Voldemort.  His mother, an Evans and a
> Muggle-born, would not have any special significance
> to him.  I seriously doubt that he had a
> "relationship" with Lily (as I have seen suggested on
> other boards.)  I think he was just giving her a way
> out.
> 
> Personally, I think he would have killed her after
> killing Harry.  I don't think he had any real use for
> women.  IMHO

This won't work, unfortunately, because it doesn't explain why he 
wouldn't have killed her first. It's easier that way and the guy 
doesn't have much remorse.

Therefore, we do need a "relationship" with Lily in some form. This 
has ranged all the way from Lily being Riddle's daughter, 
grandaughter, cousin, to Lily having saved his life, to TEWWW EWWW 
TEWWW be TREWWW, which posits horrible things about Lily and Snape, 
and EWWWWWWer also known as So EWWWWWer it's in the SEWWWWWer, which 
won the most disgusting Harrry Potter theory award. Just tipe EWWW 
into the search engine if you're brave enough.

> Now... in book 3, Professor Trelawney goes into a
> trance and predicts the return of Voldemort. 
> Dumbledore muses that that is perhaps her *second*
> real prediction.  I have to wonder if (again, sorry if
> this is a repeat on this board.) her *first* real
> prediction was that a Potter would bring about LV's
> downfall.

A perennial favourite theory. I'm a devotee myself of a theory 
proposed on this board: that Trelawney predicted that the Potter 
blood would bring about LV's downfall, thus putting a new spin on the 
gleam of triumph. Whose idea was that, btw? I can't remember, and I 
don't know what to search for.

Eileen