Why the Potters?

[darrin_burnett]

No: HPFGUIDX 57870


> 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.


I'm not going to get too much farther into the "what real mothers 
would have done" theory because I just don't feel strongly enough 
about the possibility that V-Mort was trying to spare Lily.

All I'm saying is that V-Mort, if he intended to spare Lily, whether 
for Snape, or for his own lusts (Ew!) or because she's his 
granddaughter (Ew again!), he didn't seem to try very hard.
 

Now, onto Lynn's 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.

Very plausible. I tend to think, regardless, the V-Mort would have 
killed James and Lily anyway. It's just good business to not leave 
behind any vengeful folks.

> 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.

And a Muggle-born female at that. So long as V-Mort's in the 
neighborhood, why not off another Mudblood? I could see that. 

Darrin
-- The only good reason to Time Travel would be to see Marilyn Monroe 
in person.