Marking as an Equal

[Geoff Bannister]

No: HPFGUIDX 82446

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "c_naegle" <c_naegle at y...> 
wrote:

Casper:
> V did not hear the entire proph. and did not know at the time that 
> Harry may or may not have been the one in the proph.  Remember at 
> the time there were two boys who the prophecy could have been about.  V 
> made Harry the one when he choose to go to Godric's Hollow to try 
> and kill him.  That was the marking of the equal, but V had no idea 
> about that part of it.  Harry himself questions why V didn't wait until 
> the two of them grew up and he saw who was the strongest wizard.

Geoff:
This reminds me of something that has puzzled me. It has been 
suggested here and in many other posts that Voldemort acted rashly by 
attacking Harry at the age of 15 months and not leaving him to grow 
up and then decide which of the two boys represented the threat.

A follow up to this is, why under those circumstances, did he wait so 
long? Why was he not in there, firing from the hip, when Harry was 
just a tiny child?