Professor Trelawney's First Prediction

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No: HPFGUIDX 43946

I have been mulling over this question for a few years now, and I am 
convinced that Professor Trelawney's first prediction had something 
to do with Harry and Voldemort.  Here is my reasoning:

In chapter seventeen of the Sorcerer's Stone, Harry says to 
Dumbledore, "...Voldemort said that he only killed my mother because 
she tried to stop him from killing me.  But why would he want to kill 
me in the first place?"  Dumbledore replies, "Alas, the first thing 
you ask me, I cannot tell you. Not today.  Not now.  You will know, 
one day...put it from your mind for now, Harry.  When you are 
older...I know you hate to hear this...when you are ready you will 
know."

Harry obviously does put this out of his mind, and so does everyone 
else, until the Prisoner of Azkaban.  In chapter Nine, Harry hears 
his mother's voice for the first time during a Quidditch match when 
the dementor's come onto the field, confirming what Voldemort told 
Harry in book One.  Voldemort was willing to let Lily live if he 
could have Harry in exchange.  In Chapter Twelve, during Patronus 
practice with Lupin, Harry hears his father say, "Lily, take Harry 
and go!  It's him!  Go! Run! I'll hold him off--"  

Why did James say that he would "hold him off"?  What was he holding 
Voldemort from?  It is my opinion to say that Voldemort wasn't 
actually after the Potters as a family.  He was only after Harry. 
James and Lily Potter died because they trying to protect their son. 

I believe that Trelawney made a prediction that Harry would be the 
cause of Voldemort's downfall, either as a child, or as a man.   
Whatever the case, Voldemort tried to kill him as quickly as 
possible, before Harry would grow up to be a danger to him.  


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