Replay

[Jen Reese]

No: HPFGUIDX 85115

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "hickengruendler" 
<hickengruendler at y...> wrote:
>  
> I don't think that really matters. If I were Voldeort, I would 
have 
> tried to kill Harry and Neville. Therefore the Potters and the 
> Longbottoms were both on his "to die" list. But maybe Frank and 
ALice 
> longbottom had a trustworthy secret keeper, therefore he had the 
> chance to go to the Potters first.

Jen R: As Dumbledore said, "he {Voldie) chose the boy he thought 
most likely to be a danger to him...he chose, not the pureblood, but 
the half-blood like himself." (OOTP, US, chap. 37, p. 842), so the 
Prophecy alone could lead to the 'animus' described in the interview-
--Voldie decided Harry was the "One with the Power" and the Potters 
were his barrier to killing the boy. I tend to think it also has to 
do with the Potters in general (as Nora mentioned), their defiance 
as pure-bloods who oppose Voldie. Perhaps even having a child at 
all, a Potter heir, was considered 'definace' by Voldie.

This is tangential, but I've been curious about the Longbottom 
secret keeper. Did they give up their secret keeper once Voldie was 
presumed dead, and that's how Bella and Company found them? Or did 
they have an unreliable secret keeper...perhaps even Caradoc 
Dearborn who gave up their secret and then disappeared?!? (Sorry--I 
just have Dearborn on the brain today, wondering about his purpose).