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hickengruendler
  
> 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).

I've never really understood why getting the prophecy was so 
important to Voldemort. From the beginning he's been trying to kill 
Harry so why was it so important to get the prophecy?It didn't 
really tell us anything new or anything that would help Voldemort 
defeat/kill Harry. It just seems that he spent the whole book trying 
to get the thing for no real reason. It was a brilliant book and I 
was thrilled with it the whole way through but I found the prophecy 
a bit of a let down. Especially without knowing how or why the 
Potter defied Voldemort or why he chose Harry not Nevile.