THEORY: Voldemort's plans for Harry

[cubfanbudwoman]

No: HPFGUIDX 112915

Aura wrote:
> So, it's been discussed -- very convincingly -- that the spell 
> Voldemort used on baby Harry wasn't an AK, but something else. 
> (See: archives for evidence of this.) The OP suggested that V meant 
> to absorb Harry's powers or something. But rewatching CoS, it 
> occurs to me that V is the *last* heir of Slytherin. The last 
> person in a long, proud, powerful magical family. 
> 
> Considering the purebloodists' emphasis on bloodline and such, 
> wouldn't one of V's primary goals be to find someone to carry on 
> his bloodline?
> 
> So . . . what if V wasn't trying to *take* baby Harry's essence, but
> *give* Harry Voldemort's. The spell was extremely powerful, enough 
> to take out the Potter's house; a spell like what that I'm 
> suggesting is more extreme magic than anything we've seen, and 
> would surely take a lot of power and a really badass dark wizard.
> 
> Why would he pick Harry? If Harry was destined to kill V, and V is
> concerned with continuing his bloodline, then he must fear that 
> Harry will grow up to kill any of V's heirs (because dark wizards 
> are paranoid like that). If Harry IS V's heir, then V is hoping 
> that Harry (selfishly, because that's the only kind of motivation V 
> understands) won't kill himself for any kind of V-stopping heroics. 
> 

SSSusan:
These are very intriguing thoughts, Aura, especially since it has 
been recently speculated that what Voldy used at GH was not AK.
The only reaction I had, though, which would go a bit against the 
likelihood of this, is that Voldy had already taken extraordinary 
steps towards immortality...and had apparently experienced some 
success.  If he felt he was immortal, would he worry about having an 
heir at all?  Or do you think he *would* have, just as a 
precautionary step?

Siriusly Snapey Susan