More Points to Ponder: The Prophecies

[centaur1215]

No: HPFGUIDX 75246

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Kevin" <vuwildcat03 at y...> 
wrote:
> 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 protagonist for 7 books to end up being the 
> hero.


Kevin,
We learned in GOF that the Lastranges & Barty Crouch Jr & 1 other man 
was sent to Azkaban because they had tortured the Longbottoms.  It 
was after Voldy marked Harry