Remember when Harry claimed he was Neville Longbottom on the Knight Bus?

[vmonte]

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DuffyPoo wrote:

Exactly! Dumbledore has made a huge whopping mistake by reading the
circumstantial evidence as 'fact'.

HP didn't lose his parents because of a mistake. HP lost his parents 
because LV was going to kill every child that could possibly fulfill 
the part of the prophecy he knew "born to those who have thrice 
defied him, born as the seventh month dies". HP and NL fulfilled that 
part of the prophecy when they were both born at the end of July, 
1980. LV started with HP, because, thanks to Wormtail, he knew where 
to find HP and the Longbottoms were still hidden from him. He was
thwarted there by Lily's sacrifice.


vmonte responds:

What if (not based on canon, just a thought) Voldemort had originally 
picked Neville but was swayed by someone else to go after the Potter 
family. Could Snape have convinced Voldemort to go after Jame's 
family because of his personal hatred towards James? James saved 
Snape's life once, perhaps Snape couldn't kill him, but someone else 
could. 

There has to be a reason why Voldemort commented to Harry that his 
mother need not have died. Why, when he seems to enjoy killing anyone 
and everyone? Did someone tell him no to? Did Snape know that Lily 
had armed herself with a spell that would activate upon her death? Or 
was Voldemnort only interested in destroying the Potter line and was 
not interested in Lily because she was not bloodpure? Did Wormtail or 
another person want Lily's life spared? (Why Voldemort would agree I 
don't know.)   

It just seems like Voldemort is not playing with a full deck. Snape 
often reminds me of Shakespeare's Iago. He is very talented at  
manipulating people with his words. I wonder if Snape persuaded 
Voldemort to go after Harry.

vivian  

(I'm not putting Snape down, I just want a real bad guy in the series 
that's not a joke like Voldemort.)