JKR interview - Lily and why Harry ends up having to do doing something...

[vmonte]

No: HPFGUIDX 101601

greatelderone wrote:

You left out Dumbledore's part where he mentions that Lily&James
along with the Longbottoms managed to defy Voldemort three times at
the height of his power, which is something Harry hasn't even done.
Pretty significant seeing how Voldemort told Lily to step aside from
Harry in their final encounter instead of killing her first and that
he emphasized it in his encounter with Harry in PS.


vmonte responds:

Page 841, OOTP, U.S. version:

"It meant," said Dumbledore, "that the person who has the only chance 
of conquering Lord Voldemort for good was born at the end of July, 
nearly sixteen years ago.  This boy would be born to parents who had 
already defied Voldemort three times."

Page 842

"Sibyll's prophecy could have applied to two wizard boys, both born 
at the end of July that year, both of whom had parents having 
narrowly escaped Voldemort three times.  One of course was you.  The 
other was Neville Longbottom."  

"He saw himself in you before he had ever seen you, and in marking 
you with that scar, he did not kill you, as he intended, but gave you 
a future, which have fitted you to escape him not once, but four 
times so far--something that neither your parents, nor Neville's 
parents, ever achieved."

vmonte