More Points to Ponder: The Prophecies

[Kevin]

No: HPFGUIDX 75180

KathyK:


> Voldemort could have been after both the Potters and the 
> Longbottoms.  We don't know what means the Longbottoms used, if any 
> to keep themselves and Neville safe from Voldeomort.  Until the 
> Potters made Wormtail Secret-Keeper, I think Voldemort actively 
> searched for both families if he didn't know which one was the one 
> that would fulfill the prophecy.  When Wormtail became Secret-Keeper, 
> able to divulge the whereabouts of the Potters, Voldemort decided to 
> go after them first because he knew where to find him.  If he could 
> get rid of Harry, he'd at least be assured that one potential threat 
> was gone, if not actually destroying the threat if Harry turned out 
> to be the one in the prophecy.
> I can't keep my eyes open anymore,


Is it possible that in the year between Harry (and Neville's) births and when LV killed 
the Potter's that The Longbottom's went mad and Neville was sent to his 
Grandmother's?  I can't recall if there is a specified timeline with respect to that, 
but....
    If the Longbottom's were already driven to insanity during Neville's infacy and then 
he was sent to his grandmother's perhaps it was as simple as LV not being able to 
find Neville, or rather finding the Potter's and Harry first.  Obviously LV didn't 
consider the fact that when he attacked Harry he would be reduced to a powerless 
spirit.  Perhaps he was aware of and planned on killing both Harry and Neville and 
Wormtail simply gave him the Potter's information first.

As for some of the suggestions that Harry is not indeed the one foretold to battle LV, 
maybe it's the stick-in-the-mud realist in me, but I just don't think J.K.R. would build 
an empire (books, films, retail) on this huge lie.  As much as this group here is a 
bunch of grownups, the millions and millions of children that this empire is based 
around would be utterly confused and distrubed.  I really hope for some more 
awesome surprises in the series, but the kid in me wants it all to end happy and for 
the boy/young man who has been the prtoagonist for 7 books to end up being the 
hero.

--Kevin