Harry's importance and threats of expulsion

[Dan Delaney]

No: HPFGUIDX 57141

On Monday, May 5, 2003, at 07:07 PM, Steve wrote:
> Harry is a very important person in the wizarding world; important in 
> their past, and more important in their future

Which brings up a good point. Obviously Harry is extremely important 
for reasons that we still don't know (but hopefully will in 45 days, 12 
hours, 19 minutes, and 56 seconds :-). Why, for instance, did Voldemort 
go to the Potters' house specifically to kill Harry? He kept telling 
Lily to stand aside so that he could kill Harry. Why? Why not just go 
ahead and kill her? Why bother trying to spare her?

So, if Harry is so important, all these threats about being expelled 
from Hogwarts are just blowing smoke up his...ahem...er...uh. There is 
NO WAY that they would expel him--for ANY reason. If he's that 
important, they want to make sure that he gets fully trained the way 
THEY want him to be trained. It wouldn't do any good to expel him and 
have him end up being a below-average wizard due to lack of proper 
training. They want to make sure he becomes the best wizard he can 
possibly be in order to do whatever it is that he was destined to do.

Sooner or later Harry will figure that out and stop being so afraid of 
being expelled just for the little rule breaking he does. (Okay, so 
maybe some of it was not so little. But the fact that he hasn't gotten 
expelled for some of the big things should be his first clue!)

--Dan