Why the Potters? or History moves in circles

[tepmurt9981]

No: HPFGUIDX 58061

Ok, I'm new here and I wasn't sure where to tack this on.  Here 
goes...

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Maria" 
<queen_amidalachic at y...> wrote:
> 
> I am unaware of canon-proof that James was a target of 
> Voldemort.  We know Voldemort states Lily didn't have to die,
> but that doesn't mean James had to die himself.  He likely died
> defending Harry.  Harry is the threat to LV not because of the
> bloodlines of *either* of his parents, but because of the
> bloodline of *each* of his parents.  I think that Harry is the heir
> of Gryffindor and Slytherin...
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I believe that Harry is only the heir of Gryffindor.  I also think that 
this, in and of itself was not enough to threaten Voldemort, that 
there were other factors that made him come after the Potters.

1.)  Trelawney's first prediction - Now it doesn't have to be 
Trelawney, but we've been left with a teaser.  What was the first 
prediction?  Obviously it was something relevant to HP or it 
wouldn't have come up at all (or we would have been told about it 
already).

2.)  Sirius in the Shrieking Shack - I apologize profusely because 
by books are all packed at the moment, but in PoA when Sirius is 
confronting the newly-revealed Peter, he says that Harry was "the 
last of the Potters" (if anyone could give a page number for this I 
would be very grateful).  Why is it important that Voldemort have 
the last of the Potters?

3.)  Harry's eyes - This has nothing to do with being an heir, IMO, 
but bear with me for a moment.  We know, from JK's comments, 
that Harry (and therefore Lily's) eye color is significant, that it 
might (probably will) indicate some special gift.

4.)  Harry's inheritance - Harry has inherited a lot of money from 
his parents.  When James and Lily died, they were in their very 
early twenties.  I'm not sure that this would be enough time to 
earn that much money after they had just recently graduated.  
Also, in PP/SS Hagrid says something along the lines of (sorry, 
book is once again packed), "you didn't think that they'd leave 
you without any money, did you?"

The fact that J and L were able to leave Harry with so much 
money when they died at such a young age suggests that one of 
the two of them had that sort of money to begin with.  Since we 
know that James had an invisibility cloak and nothing about the 
Dursley's suggests that Petunia is at all wealthy, I believe that 
James is from an old, rich wizarding family.

5.)  Voldemort killed James outright and told Lily to "step aside"

So my theory is this:

James is from an old wizarding family and is a descendant/heir 
of Gryffindor.  Lily has a special power, as indicated by the 
unique color of her eyes.  Harry now has both this eye power and 
is the new heir of Gryffindor.  Trelawney predicted that only an 
heir of Gryffindor with that special "eye power" would be able to 
defeat the heir of Slytherin.

This would explain why Voldemort killed James, but then told Lily 
to step aside instead of just killing her.  If V killed James and 
Harry, and they were (as Sirius stated) "the last" Potters and 
therefore the last heirs of Gryffindor, then there could never be 
that same combination of "eye power" and Gryffindor heir.

Tepmurt