Why Harry?

[finwitch]

No: HPFGUIDX 54548

> "imamommy":
> 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?   

I think that Harry *was* prophesied to "put an end to the power of 
the Dark Lord" or the "one who'd have Voldemort's power" or "defeat 
the Dark Lord" or whatever. Then, yes - I do understand that 
Voldemort - in attempt to prevent such a prophecy from coming true - 
fulfills it. I've read many stories where an attempt to prevent a 
prophecy actually helps it's fulfill. Because that's the way of a 
*magical* prediction: it *will* happen, and the one who hears/sees it 
*will* aid it's coming, one way or another.

Trelawney's second prediction where a chained servant gets free, 
returns to his master and helps the Dark Lord to rise again - note 
how Ron&Harry hear this; then, later, it is *them* who act to fulfill 
it (on Pettigrew, who owes Harry a life-debt), even as it's unplanned.
Dumbledore, on hearing of this prophecy- he thinks of how to interact 
so that in Voldemort's return he has an advantage. Dumbledore knows 
well that resisting a magical prediction is futile.

Now then, as to why Voldemort wanted *Harry's* blood. For a one 
thing, the blood had to be *forcibly* taken. Dumbledore might give 
the blood freely (in which case the potion doesn't work). Harry's 
blood - oh, Harry *would* resist. And, capturing a child is way 
easier than capturing an adult; only child Voldemort would consider 
as his enemy, is Harry.

I think that the flesh-blood thing *will* have something extra 
because Pettigrew owes his life to Harry, but Voldemort doesn't know 
of that - yet.

-- Finwitch