Whose prophecy? (was Re: Why Harry?)

[David Burgess]

No: HPFGUIDX 54629

> Catherine wrote:
>> It's possible you are right, but this line in PoA, gave me pause for
>> thought, and convinced me that it was something about the Potters
>> themselves, which would not include Lily:
>

[elided]

>> ...ready to strike the moment he could be sure of allies...to
>> deliver the last of the Potters to them."
>
>> The last of the Potters - persuasive, if not conclusive.
>
>
> Hmm....This sounds like Voldemort killed the rest of the Potters and
> the only ones left where James, Lily and Harry, thus making it sound
> like Wormtail would have delivered to Voldemort the LAST OF THE
> POTTERS. Am I reading into these books, again? Please tell
> me I'm  not because I find it interesting (and sad, of course) that
> Voldemort  not only killed his mom and dad, but the rest of his
> Potter-side
> family. Maybe the Evans were murdered by Voldemort as well, they
> could have been with the Potter grandparents, making it being at the
> wrong place, at the wrong time.
>

I've been wondering about this ever since the first time I read that
passage.  That all of Harry's grandparents are gone, as are any aunts or
uncles on his father's side of the family.  In fact, I've had a thought
that Voldemort could have murdered the Evans', which is why Petunia hates
Harry so badly.  In SS/PS, Petunia is clearly more cruel that mere
inconvenience would warrant.  Vernon doesn't seem to care much one way or
the other - sure, he'd rather Harry wasn't there, but other than that he's
just a bother.

If Petunia's parent were killed right before Lily and James, then clearly
this would be a source of bitter resentment that would fester into the
kind of clear neo-masocism that Petunia seems to exhibit.

-- 
Dave Burgess