Dumbledore's hold on Petunia [was Re: Lily's Family]

[Jen Reese]

No: HPFGUIDX 107964

Celestina:
What I was trying to say, and didn't, was this: 
> its my theory that the reason V  tried to kill James and Harry but 
> not necessarily Lily, was because I feel that there is a geneology 
or 
> blood link (going back to Gryffindor likely, I hope) that makes 
Harry 
> the one that would have the power to vanquish V. I know this is 
> incomplete at this point, because we know from OOTP that V doesn't 
> know the complete prophecy (and I am wondering if we don't know 
the 
> whole thing either). 

Jen: Thanks for writing back--my modem went out yesterday and I'm 
just getting caught up! OK, I understand now what you meant before, 
that the Potter blood gives Harry the Power. 

I *do* believe there's something special about Harry, that if LV had 
chosen Neville and not Harry, Neville would be dead and Harry would 
still be the One. Others believe Harry only has the power to defeat 
the Dark Lord because LV chose him, marked him and transferred 
powers to him, making him an equal.

But, back to the blood. I do think Harry is special in the sense 
that he has a magical heritage he can choose to live up to or not. 
For myself I've decided the Choice Theory isn't negated, even if 
Harry has 'special blood', because Harry continues to choose to 
defeat the Dark Lord and always has since Book 1. Maybe that choice 
will waver in Book 6, now that he knows 'everything', but Harry 
being Harry, he'll still choose the path of Good.

Celestina: 
> Now regading Lily. If the importance of killing 
> James and Harry was to terminate the bloodline of the one who 
could 
> defeat V, and to assure that if Harry died then James couldn't 
> produce another offspring, then the killing of Lily wasn't 
necessary 
> because she is of a different geneaology.  

Jen: Here's where I agree with you, but in the opposite direction--I 
think Lily is the link to Gryffindor, and has a stong magical 
heritage that gives her some special powers, and Harry as well. I 
really like the idea that Voldemort told Lily to 'step aside', not 
because he didn't think she mattered, but because he feared the 
consequences of killing her. Perhaps he knew something about her 
power to indicate killing her might bring some curse down on him. He 
chose to kill her anyway, taking his chances, and obviously not 
realizing Harry has the same power(s).

Celestina: 
> But as far as her blood serving as protection to the 
> Dursley's household, well I just feel that the Dursleys are no 
threat 
> to V because Lily wasn't a direct threat to V. It was the Potters 
> blood that was the threat. As JKR has told us virtually nothing 
about 
> James's background so far in the storyline, I am assuming that the 
> reason for this is because it is important to the outcome of the 
book 
> and our final understanding of the V vs Harry plot, and she is 
> withholding it because she didn't want to spring it on us too 
early 
> in the series. 

Jen: I do think it could go either way, either one would work. If 
it's Lily passing down the magical blood, the potential is there 
that Dumbledore was able to talk Petunia into taking Harry by saying 
he would protect Dudley as well. If there's no threat to the 
Dursleys or Dudley at least, I have a very hard time figuring out 
what Dumbledore offered them. I can't believe he treatened them into 
doing it--I think Petuina had to *choose*(grudgingly, bitterly, etc.)
to take Harry in for Dumbledore's charm to work.