Teenage Harry goes back in time to Godric's Hollow

[lucinda428]

No: HPFGUIDX 101542

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "potioncat" <willsonkmom at m...> 
wrote:
> vmonte wrote:
> snip
> > 
> > Harry realizes that he was there (as a child and as an 18 year 
> old).
> > He goes back but cannot save Lily from death. (Snape is also 
there 
> > but he is one of the bad guys.) Eighteen year old Harry is 
killed 
> > there--because he saves Snape's life.  Snape owes Harry. Because 
> > Harry looks like James, people assume that it is him in the 
> rubble.  
> > Snape carries Harry away and somehow puts a stopper on his 
death.  


Vmonte - While not wishing to quibble with your dream (you have much 
better dreams than I do!), a perhaps even more exciting prospect is 
that Harry does go back in time, does fail to save Lily, but IS the 
cause of his own survival.  There is the matching wands thing and 
all its inherent surprises, for a start.  (Alternatively, if you 
want to read the prophecy the other way, Neville could be the means 
of intervention just as easily.)  

Snape's involvement is an interesting thesis, but not necessary to 
the success of the basic premise.