very basic confusion

[Geoff Bannister]

No: HPFGUIDX 163658

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Akash aki <akash2006k at ...> wrote:
>
> hi
>   May be it was discussed earlier, I am not aware of it so no offence.
>   I was thinking and got confused how it all got started, that Potters realised that Tom 
Riddle is behind their son. Prophecy was something ' he will mark other to his equal' but 
why he chosen Potters' son.
>   Also how DD and others so convinced that it is going to be HP whom Tom is going to 
mark and which led to all this FC, SK etc, and how Tom decided about Potters's son. 

Geoff:
I think there is a fairly clear explanation of some of your questions in the books 
themselves. If you read the last few pages of "The Lost Prophecy" - chapter 37 of OOTP - 
which is about pages 740-744 UK edition, Dumbledore tries to show Harry how 
Voldemort's thoughts had been moving. It's just after he explained why he had not told 
Harry everything and then there is the exchange:

'Harry waited but Dumbledore did not speak.
"I still don't understand."
"Voldemort tried to kill you when you were a child because of a prophecy made shortly 
before your birth..."

Hope this will help.