Voldemort kills James and Lilly-why not send the Death-eaters to do it?

[kiricat2001]

No: HPFGUIDX 58141

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "iamscabberstherat" 
<carolbuzzetta at h...> wrote:
> Does anyone else find it curious that Voldemort went to kill the
> Potters himself? Why didn't he send the Death-eaters to do it? 

I'd ascribe it to typical Evil Overlordian behavior.  Why send the 
minions to do in the Potters, when you can strut in to do it 
yourself,  (believing in your own invincibility), and have the 
supreme satisfaction that not only will your enemies die at your 
hand, they will die knowing they were betrayed.  

Also,I
> think that James and Lily might have been working in some top-secret
> dept. at the ministry of magic. That might explain their wealth.

I've always kind of liked the idea that the Potter family earned its 
wealth centuries ago.  I can believe that James and Lily might have 
been doing top-secret work for the Ministry as well as for 
Dumbledore, but I don't know that the Ministry necessarily pays huge 
salaries for that. 


 The
> Dursleys certainly didn't seem particularly well-off
> financially(Petunia is Lily's sister). 

I don't get a feel one way or the other on the financial status of 
the Evans family.  Certainly Petunia seems to appreciate whatever 
Vernon's salary has brought her, but I think part of that is more the 
desire to fit in with middle class people in a middle class 
neighborhood, and draw that curtain of respectability over the memory 
of her freak sister, Lily.

I think that Hagrid will be
> killed in OOTP and that Percy will be a pawn in Voldemorts' plans.
> This and Pettigrews' knowledge of the Weasley household may lead to 
a
> death of one of the Weasleys. 

I think Hagrid's a goner, too, in OOP.  And I'm sure there will be at 
least one, if not two, Weasley deaths before the end of the series, 
simply because there are lots of them.  

But, what does Pettigrew's knowledge of the household have to do with 
anything, unless there is top secret stuff going on there that would 
be of interest to the DEs?  People have speculated that Peter may 
have assumed his human form at night and done nefarious things, but 
that seems out of character for him.  Most of the years he spent 
there Sirius was safely locked up and Voldemort was invisibly 
impotent.  Peter wasn't going to make a move to do anything until he 
knew he had another, safer bolt hole to go to.  I'm more concerned 
with Peter's knowledge of Padfoot.  

Marianne