A DE ready to take over LV 's place after Godric's Hollow.

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No: HPFGUIDX 99349

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "David Burgess" <burgess at c...> wrote:
> 
> In fact, if Snape helped Lily put the charms together to protect Harry,
> and told LV "Try not to hurt the girl, just kill the kid and move on"
> without realizing how much damage the spell rebound was going to do, that
> would explain why "Step aside, you silly girl" was there.  If Snape was
> acting in his own enlightened self-interest, he could have also told
> Neville's parents how to protect the kid.  This could also be a good
> reason for altering their memories to the point of addling them.
> 

Small snag.
Dumbledore claims to  have set up the charms to protect Harry
(OoP chap.37).
Another small snag; can you really see Voldy taking advice on how
to deal with the various impedimentia that  get in his way? I can't.

The way I read it, it wasn't just about knocking off Harry (though that
had priority). Voldy was in the business of terrorising the WW and Harry
was a potentially troublesome item that there really was no rush to
dispose of. After all, what danger does a 15 month old child present?
Just  so long as he was nailed before he could compete for the top
slot anytime would do.
 
James and Lily were examples - "pour encourager les autres" as much
as anything else. What's the point of being Evil Mastermind if you don't
take every opportunity to be evil? Might as well grow begonias instead. 
Besides, although Harry was given protection, I strongly suspect that 
nobody forsaw the spell back-firing to such an extent that Voldy would be 
vapourised.

Kneasy