[HPforGrownups] A theory about Harry/ Lupin's shudder/ Potter house (was Voldie's old body)

[Richelle Votaw]

No: HPFGUIDX 49387


Tyler writes:

> What if Harry was concieved specifically to fight Voldemort? Voldemort
would have been in full force at
> the time of Harry's conception; could his parents have purposefully done
something at that time to ensure
> that their child would grow up to defeat evil? If  Voldemort knew this, it
would give him reason to go
> after Harry, which seems to have been his intent on that night.

Hmm, interesting.  I like some parts and don't like some parts.  If Harry
was conceived specifically to fight Voldemort, does it diminish his parents
love for him as a person?  Or if he found this out would he think they just
loved him because he was the key to survival?  I do think it correlates to
Harry being "the one" who will defeat (permanently next time!) Voldemort.

This relates somewhat:

Kelly L. writes of Lupin's shudder:

> Personally, I always just took it as a "God forbid" about the
> possible death of Harry.  Lupin was showing horror at the idea > of Harry
dying, and especially of himself having any part in
> it.

If Harry were indeed conceived to defeat Voldemort, that would fit.  As a
horror of horrors if "the one" who can and will defeat Voldemort were to
die.

Tzvi of Brooklyn writes:

> The point is easily overlooked, but Harry's most distinct
> memory of his parents in the begning was the green light.
> Unless your exploding curpse produced a gree light, then Harry
> wouldnt have remembered it.

I believe the point was that there could've been a curse *after* the AK
curses killed the Potters.  That AK shouldn't have literally brought the
house down.

> Perhaps, it wasn't destroyed. The house might still be intact. > Maybe he
will inherit the house, he should have the inherited

Hagrid tells Dumbledore at Privet Drive, SS/PS "house was almost destroyed."
All right, he does say "almost."  But how can a house be "almost" destroyed?
Is it standing or isn't it?  So later on, in PoA, Sirius says ". . . when I
saw their house, destroyed, and their bodies . . ."

So it's safe to say the house was destroyed.

> the house. If Sirius gets cleared he can go live with him
> there. Or perhaps, in their Wizard Will, the Potters left
> Sirius Godrics Hollow, which is the house he speaks of to Harry
> that they can go and live at.

Sirius never mentions having a house.  He mentions he's Harry's godfather so
that if anything had ever happened to his parents, and so on, he beats
around the bush, says if Harry ever wanted a different home, but he'd
understand if he wanted to stay with his aunt and uncle, etc.  Harry asks
"Have you got a house?  When can I move in?"  Sirius says "You want to?  You
mean it?"  Then they don't speak about it again, Harry's just thinking about
leaving the Dursleys.  Then of course Lupin turns werewolf and so on.  I
read this as Sirius excitedly wanting his godchild to live with him, not
actually thinking about where he'll put him!  He may indeed have a place of
his own, but getting it back, now that's another story.

Richelle