[HPforGrownups] Why the Potters?

[Ladi lyndi]

No: HPFGUIDX 57853


--- darrin wrote:
> Idea 1: Just Good Business
> 
> Maybe the Potters were becoming dangerous.

Lynn:

Let's not forget that Malfoy made a comment in
CoS (p. 248, UK) that the Potters were meddlesome
fools.  This may explain why James and Lily would
be killed but not why Harry would be killed.

darrin wrote:
> Idea 2: Hatfield and McCoys
> 
> Ok, we know that Riddle is the Heir of
> Slytherin. Speculation has 
> been the Harry is the Heir of Gryffindor.
> 
> Or, figuring that James and Lily had already
> produced one heir, he 
> offed them before they could make another.

Lynn:

If Voldemort thought that these Potters were the
end of the Gryffindor line through James, it
would make sense that he killed both James and
Harry for the vary reason you gave.  If the line
went through James, killing Harry would
accomplish nothing as James could always have
another child.

darrin wrote: 
> Idea 3: For the love of a good Snape
> The "stand aside girl" bit, in my view, could
> have been just V-Mort 
> wanting to kill the baby first. 

Lynn:

I agree with another poster.  You couldn't just
move me aside when I know you're after my child. 
Voldemort, however, doesn't understand that kind
of love and so he perhaps thought just telling
Lily to move so she could live would be enough. 
I tell you, if I was Lily and I had my wand with
me, I'd have AK'd Voldemort in a heartbeat.

darrin wrote:
> Idea 4: Granddaddy dearest (OR -- the Star Wars
> theory)
> 
> V-Mort is related to the Potters, and wants to
> get rid of any 
> troublesome heirs. 

Lynn:

I don't know, JKR said in an interview this
wasn't Star Wars.  LOL  Of course, I think that
had something to do with Obi Wan What's-His-Face
(never saw the movies so I really don't know the
names very well).

Let's try a couple other theories:

Idea 5:  The Prediction Theory

Trelawney makes her first real prediction that
the son of James Potter will bring the downfall
of Voldemort.  Voldemort decides to get Harry
before Harry gets him.  Voldemort hadn't intended
to kill James but does because James battled him.

Idea 6:  Mixed-Up Theory

Voldemort finds out that Harry is the true heir
of Gryffindor as Voldemort is the true heir of
Slytherin.  Trelawney predicts that the heirs
will battle each other and that the Gryffindor
heir will win.  Voldemort decides to off Harry
while he's a baby and therefore can't do battle
and therefore, Voldemort will win.  James Potter
has been a general pain in the you-know-what to
Voldemort anyway, so Voldemort decides to get rid
of him figuring without him Lily will stop being
a pain since she's just a female anyway.

Lynn
(who'd like to do a bit of time-travelling
herself just so she could go back in time with
the winning lottery numbers)

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