Why the Potters?

[darrin_burnett]

No: HPFGUIDX 57852

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Meliss9900 at a... wrote:
> In a message dated 5/14/2003 7:25:18 AM Central Standard Time, 
> bard7696 at a... writes:
> 
> > And I've never been convinced he meant to spare Lily. Had he really 
> > wanted to, it seems he could have. We're talking about the brightest 
> > student ever at Hogwarts and he can't move a woman away from a baby 
> > without killing her? 
> > 
> > The "stand aside girl" bit, in my view, could have been just V-Mort 
> > wanting to kill the baby first. 
> > 
> 

Mel wrote: 
> Have you ever tried to move a mother protecting her child?  You'd have to 
> kill me first.

Oh, completely understood, but then again, we're talking about a guy who has 
access to Criacticus curses -- if she's seized up like a dying cockroach, she 
can't do much -- and the Imperio spell -- GET AWAY, WOMAN!

Or just use a Banishing spell to send her flying into the wall.

It's magic, remember.

But, the best fix I've heard to this concern of mine is that she was out of the 
way and then jumped into the path of the blast.

> And if the Heir of Gryffindor theory does play out then James and Harry 
would 
> both be descendents and thus both Heirs  
> 

What Ersatz said. I think "Heir" is in the sense of "chosen one" rather than in 
actual descendant.

Riddle was Salazar's chosen one. Is Harry Godric's?

Darrin