Scar doesn't cut it as H=V

[Beth]

No: HPFGUIDX 70766

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Steve" <bboy_mn at y...> wrote:
> 
> What we do know is that Voldemort had been after the Potters,
> otherwise the Potters would not have had to go into hiding. The 
search for the Potters had to be above and beyond the normal attacks 
that were occurring in the wizard world. Certainly, no one was safe, 
and certainly no one in the Order was safe, but not everyone went 
into hiding to the extent that the Potters did. This implies that 
there was some unique significants to LV chasing the Potters. 
> 
> So basically, I'm not buying the random chance theory. I can see 
it as possible, but I can't see it as likely.
> 
> Having said all that, let me turn things around. 
> 
> One can logically conclude that in weighing the merits of Harry and
> Neville, Voldemort chose Harry as the one he feared, the one who 
would be his equal and have the power to 'vanquish' Voldemort. In 
choosing and trying to kill Harry, he failed and left a mark, a 
scar, that designated and would seem to confirm that indeed Harry is 
the ONE.
> 

We don't know, because it doesn't say so in canon, but what if the 
Longbottoms *were* in hiding, too, and Voldemort just had the 
opportunity (via Wormtail) to off Harry first, subsequently marking 
him The One? After which, Auror Frank comes out of hiding with his 
guard down (because Neville's no longer a One candidate) and gets 
attacked by psycho Bella et al?

Beth