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

[sofdog_2000]

No: HPFGUIDX 101792

> boyd:
> 
> I've been giving this some thought lately, too, and three things 
> bother me. 1) Lilly didn't seem fond of James in the flashback, yet 
> they married. 2) James "put up a courageous fight", but no word of 
> what he was fighting for. 3) Why Harry? Why not someone else? Why 
is 
> he so special? Aaargh, this part just puzzles me.
> 
> I can only guess at some storylines, so here's a couple *very* 
> off-the-wall thoughts.
> 
> * Harry is the *one* who can defeat LV simply because LV chose him 
to 
> be the last killing or possession or whatever for LV to gain 
eternal 
> life. LV already did part of the spell and needed only to kill 
Harry 
> to complete it, and that's why they're connected psychically. And 
> that's the only thing that has kept LV from gaining eternal life--
he 
> has to finish the spell with Harry, no one else will work now that 
> the process was begun.


SOF:

1) Lily eventually married James because he changed. He got over 
himself and started behaving like a better person. Why hasn't been 
revealed, but hey, people mature. 

2)James put up a courageous to save his family. Otherwise, why bother 
telling Lily to run with Harry? He was trying to protect them. This 
is easily extrapolated from the shreds of information about that 
fateful day that are seeded throughout the series. 

3) Harry is the one because Voldemort chose to attack him. There were 
only two choices: Harry Potter and Neville Longbottom. For his own 
reasons, which Dumbledore suggests was a subconcious identification 
to the half-blood child, Voldemort decided that Harry was the 
prophesied "one with the power to vanquish the Dark Lord." The 
incidental result of his attack was the gifting of Harry with that 
power. If Voldemort had attacked Neville, that boy would the one. 

Voldemort wasn't killed by the AK backfire because he had been 
performing experiments on himself for years in an attempt to make 
himself impervious to death. He doesn't know if he succeeded 
entirely, but he managed to survive the AK. 

I don't get this spell business. LV wasn't doing a spell with Harry. 
Their link comes from the AK backfire when Harry was a baby.