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[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 85190

hickengruendler wrote:
<snip> 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 wrote:
 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.
>pose). 
<snip>


The "defiance as pure-bloods" might explain why LV killed James (aside
from the inconvenient fact that James was a powerful wizard who was
preventing him from reaching his real target), but it wouldn't apply
to Lily, who (as the quoted passage reminds us) is a muggle-born.
Voldemort dismisses her as a "silly girl" and tells her to "stand
aside" (as if any mother would do that in those circumstances). He
seems, in fact, to hold her in contempt as an unworthy adversary
despite those mysterious instances of "defiance."  I suppose James's
marriage to a muggle-born *might* qualify as an act of defiance
because the pure Potter blood would be "contaminated" by the
(predominantly) muggle blood of the Evanses, but I rather doubt it. 
The Longbottoms, OTOH, *were* pure bloods, but their marriage was
along the lines he approved of. I can't see him considering it, or
their having a pure blood child, as one of their acts of defiance.
Maybe the Longbottoms and James were "blood traitors," but Lily was
just "your muggle mother" (to use Young Tom Riddle's words to Harry in
CS. She was killed because she stood in Voldemort's way, not because
she had previously defied him.

Carol