What saved Harry?

[mercurybluesmng]

No: HPFGUIDX 142760

> Zehms:
> Actually I think Lily was very significant, and much more than a minor 
> nuisance.
> 
> JKR is telling fans to ask the question, 'why was Lily given the
choice that 
> no previous wizard has been given?' I think her choice is a
profitable line of 
> inquiry and I think the reason she was given a choice is a vital
piece of the 
> plot-were the answer to that question unimportant JKR would not have
told 
> Mugglenet and Leaky Cauldren that it was significant.



MercuryBlue:
Oh, I know she has great significance to the backstory and future
plot. Did Voldemort know she had any significance whatsoever?
Unlikely. Did he care? Rather less likely. She was about as important
to him as that ant is to you.

James WAS significant to Voldemort. Sort of. Certainly he posed more
of a threat, though that might be as much because he was actually
pointing a wand at him and yelling in Latin. (Lily, you'll note, did
no such thing.) My personal theory is that James was made a target
because 1) he was a pureblood with a Muggle-born girlfriend 2) his
best friend was House of Black's 'white sheep' 3) he annoyed the elder
Slytherins in school; those elder Slytherins, having joined the Death
Eaters for their own reasons, decided it'd be amusing to grab a few
friends and get a bit of personal revenge; Voldemort figured it
wouldn't hurt anything, and it would up the fear factor (always a good
thing). The subsequent attacks only came because James (and Lily?) had
enough talent to get away from the first one with their hides
relatively intact, and even then were probably orchestrated by those
same Slytherins who'd been Marauder targets a couple times too many.
Probably including Snape.

MercuryBlue