Was Harry Born a Muggle?

[meriaugust]

No: HPFGUIDX 105617

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "gelite67" <gelite67 at y...> 
wrote:
> My personal theory as to why LV couldn't kill Harry:  Snape was 
there 
> and interfered b/c he was in love with Lily.  He arrived too late 
to 
> save her, but he saved Harry so that part of her would live on.  
> 
> My alternative theory is that LV got it wrong and Neville was the 
> person referred to in the prophesy.  Harry was born a Muggle but 
> became a wizard when LV transferred some of his powers to him 
(marked 
> him as his equal).  

Meri now: I don't quite understand what you mean "born a Muggle". 
Lily and James were definately both a witch and wizard, and unless 
you're implying that Harry was naturally a squib, then it's not 
possible for him to be a Muggle-born. We know that some of LV's 
powers were transfered to Harry, but we also know of the 'magic 
quill' which detects the birth of babies with magical potential, and 
so Harry was literally down for Hogwarts since he was born. 

LV could only kill the infant who was mentioned 
> in the prophesy; since Harry wasn't the infant, LV couldn't kill 
> him.  There are references to LV killing Muggles, but no other 
> references to him killing infants, I don't think.  

Meri: I'll bet LV has the blood of many kids on his hands. Several 
familes were murdered on his orders, and like the Potters, I am sure 
no one was supposed to be left alive. And I think that if Harry had 
not been the one to whom the prophecy pertianed, then he would have 
died in that attack, LV would have gone on to Neville and then we'd 
be reading a very different series. In my interpretation of the 
Prophecy, LV was acting on the two kids *before* they could become 
powerful enough to kill him. Obviously as babies they didn't have 
powers to defeat him. But if he killed them before they grew up 
(kinda like the Pharoah and Moses) then they'd be no threat ever. 

Meri