Voldemort CHOSE to attack Harry

[Cathy Drolet]

No: HPFGUIDX 108657

Meidbh 
"He could be just a decoy. Maybe DD is playing along to protect the person 
with the real power...." 

DuffyPoo:

My husband, who has not read the books, said nearly those same words yesterday.  

Meidbh 

"The idea of DD being fooled this badly or, worse still, playing along with a deception like this 
would make me wonder if the WW is really worth saving"

DuffyPoo again:
I don't look at it as DD being badly fooled just jumping to the wrong conclusions.  He knows the prophecy, he knows which kids could fulfill it, he knows what happened at the Potter home in GH, he adds up the circumstantial evidence and believes, wholeheartedly that it is Harry.  I think DD is going to be as suprised as anyone to find out it is really Neville, because Neville has gone off DD's radar.

As to DD creating the deception to protect the 'real' one, I haven't given that enough thought.  

[Non-text portions of this message have been removed]