Why Harry?

[imamommy at sbcglobal.net]

No: HPFGUIDX 54542

Since rereading SS last week, I've been haunted by the mystery of 
Harry's true meaning to Voldemort.  Voldemort tells Harry that he was 
not intending to kill Lily; that H was the only true target of the 
attack that night.  When H presses Dumbledore, he refuses to tell 
him  until he is "older" and "ready".(SS pp. 298-9).  Now, why was 
*Harry* the target at the tender age of fifteen months old?  I have a 
couple of theories, but I would be glad to entertain others.

Was H some sort of prophesied answer to the dark power of V?  Could V 
have wanted him out of the way long before H got a chance to grow 
up?  We are constantly reminded in canon how much more powerful 
a "fully-grown wizard" is compared to one still in his youth.  
Perhaps V feared a future in which H were able to defeat him.  It 
would certainly explain all the seeming coincidences - their wands, 
Parseltongue, etc. and give creedence to my own opinion that H is 
*foreordained* to oppose V.

Another, somewhat less plausible theory is that V held some sort of 
romantic feeling for Lily Potter.  Perhaps he originally wished to 
subvert her to his will, although killing her child would be a 
foolish way to go about that.  One who sought only to dominate, 
however, may not have been above such an act.

Whatever the reasoning behind the attack, it is clear that D knows 
more than he has told H, and therefore more than we do.  How is it he 
knows so much about it when he (supposedly) wasn't even there?  

Forgive me if this topic has already been adressed, but I wasn't sure 
how to find it.

"imamommy"