Why the Potters?

[darrin_burnett]

No: HPFGUIDX 57951

Tanya
> 
> And on points 3 and 4: 
 
> It could be an "heir" issue. If we want to believe that what 
> Voldemort told Harry is true. That Lily didn't have to die. Then the 
> lineage must go back through James' bloodline. So why not remove 
> James before Harry's birth? I can only think of two reasons:  James' 
> lineage wasn't known (or widely known). Or, Voldemort didn't realize 
> that any lineage was a concern of his (that is, until Trelawney's 
> prediction).  And this information must only have come to 
> Voldemort's attention after Lily was already pregnant (Heck, maybe 
> it was even Peter who spilled the beans?). 


Someone was keeping an eye on the Potters, most likely Peter, as you 
mentioned in the parts above I snipped. 

Again, I tend to think of Heir as "chosen one" rather than "relative."

Now, it is entirely possible that Harry is descended from Godric Gryffindor, just  
as Riddle was from Salazar Slytherin, but there have likely been dozens of 
men (and while I'm at it, whose to say it has to be men?) in both of their lines. 
Why Riddle and Harry?

Because there is something special about them. They have been chosen. I 
think the relations might be just incidental.

In which case, James and Lily didn't have to die to exterminate the line so 
much as needed to be eliminated to tie up loose ends.

 
> Also, if the lineage went through Lily's bloodlines, than Voldie 
> would have also been after Petunia and Dudley, and we've seen no 
> canon evidence of that so far. 
> 
> So, no, Lily did not have to die. But Harry was a threat and James 
> was a threat and both needed to be removed. 
 

I still keep coming back to the fact that V-Mort does not appear to have made 
much of an effort to spare Lily. I'm not going to dispute that Lily would have 
fought like a lionness, but I think in a head's up match, V-Mort wins every time.

But so long as it's not Lily-Snape or Lily-V-Mort, I'll buy it. :)

Darrin
-- Harry's Wizard Card would be a WONDERFUL name for a band. So would 
the Sally Slyths or the Goddy Gryffs.