Why did Voldemort want to kill Harry? + Trelawney

[uncmark]

No: HPFGUIDX 36279

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "erised_straeh" <kschaefe at g...> wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at y..., > > Starlight wrote:
> > 
> > > Why Harry? What could he possibly have against a 
> > > little baby? Why was he prepaired to spare Lily's 
> > > life, when she was more dangerous for him 
> > > than Harry ever was till then? Shouldn't that tell
> > > us something about the <<relationship>> between Lily

Ms Lizard Gizzard <lizgiz1980 at y...> wrote:

> > 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.
> > 
> No arguments here. The first prediction, I believe, is the 
> frontrunner among opinions as to how LV knows that Harry is a 
threat.

I'm considering the traditional Oracle motif from Greek Literature. 
In Oedipus Rex, Oedipus' father had a prophecy his son would kill him 
and ordered the son killed. The son was spirited off and raised in 
ignorance. Years later he fought with a stranger on a road and... you 
guessed it killed his father.

I'm seeing a similar theme with Tralawney's prediction. I'm imagining 
James and Lily as possibly top aurors in the war with LV. Maybe not 
#1 on his hit list UNTIL Professor Tralawney in a VERY PUBLIC setting 
goes into a trance and foretells that James and Lily's son will cause 
the downfall of LV. I'm picturing their wedding or Harry's 
Christening. 

1)Pettigrew passes on the news to LV
2)LV places Baby Harry on a Dark Wizard Hit List
3)Snape passes on this info to Dumbledore
4)The Potters hide in Godric's Hollow 
5)Sirius is picked as the secret-keeper
6)At the last minute Pettigrew convinces Sirius to switch with him
7)Pettigrew betrays the Potters
8)LV arrives at Godric's Hollow and uses AK on Harry
9)The backfire zaps LV fulfilling Sybil's prophecy!

"davewitley" <dfrankiswork at n...> suggested that, "Either AK takes it 
out of you enough to want to try to use it sparingly, or he 
thought 'stand aside' was easier to say, or he wanted her to see her 
son die - but whatever it was it didn't matter."

I'm guessing the first (or both) and adding that he may have just 
stunned or wounded James at the front door and wanted to save him 
until later. LV might have been wanting Lily to see her son killed to 
give witness to his power. (I don't like the PG-13 theories of him 
having some attraction to Lily) Anyway, Lily would not let him and 
sacrificed herself creating the countercharm of a mother's 
unconditional love that caused the backlash.

Finally if James died later from bloodloss or the house falling on 
him from LV's fall, that would explain the order of the Potter's 
apperance in GofF when LV's wand had the Priori Incantatem effect.

Does this make any sense to you?

Uncmark