James Potter = Voldemort

[Asperia Aspen]

No: HPFGUIDX 81283

AF <featheringstonehaugh at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Personally, I've long harbored the feeling that
> Snape is Harry's father. [snip theory]


Well...I think this would make a fine piece of fic. It
certainly must have taken some thought. And in
canonical terms it all works for me except for this
part:

> James and Lily marry and soon (less than 9 months
> later) Harry arrives as a Potter and as such, has
> nothing to fear from Voldemort....

Are you *sure* about that? If you're right, Snape, in
getting James to marry Lily, has just in effect turned
 his own son over to a couple who have, together or
apart, defied LV at least twice. (I've always been
unclear about whether the three-times-defiance of
James/Lily towards Voldemort includes Lily's sacrifice
of herself for her son or not.) Snape, as an
ex-Death-Eater, is in an excellent position to know
how badly LV reacts to opposition. If Snape as Harry's
biodad wishes Harry to escape persecution by
Voldemort, his strategy for achieving that goal seems
pretty flawed: I'm not at all sure Harry would come in
for less Voldemorian ire as a Potter than as a Snape.
If getting Harry off the hook with LV is *all* that
Snape wishes to accomplish marrying his old girlfriend
off to his old archenemy, then...all I gotta say is
that Snape'd better be careful of his
Machiavellian-plotter bona fides. Because they're in
danger. 

(A *real* insidious manipulator would've swapped Harry
for Neville...after getting DD drunk on butterbeer and
thereby siphoning out of his the details of the
Trelawey prophecy...so maybe Harry is *actually* a
Longbottom!!! Hee hee!!!)

;-) 

Sincerely,
Asperia Aspen