[HPforGrownups] Re: very basic confusion

[Akash aki]

No: HPFGUIDX 163727

aki wrote :
> 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:
> <snip>


  aki wrote again...
  Thanks Geoff, but how was he so sure that it is going to be
Harry, prophecy doesn't say clearly about the person, as far as
I know. Did DD also made safety arrangements for other kids? And
how Volde came to know that prophecy was about some child who is
not yet born? Most expected guess one can made, which relates
(unknown) prophecy and downfall of Volde that it can be none
other than DD.
  Can you please clear my doubts?
  Thanks.