Did Harry Notice?

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No: HPFGUIDX 182927

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Carol" <justcarol67 at ...> wrote:
>
> Pippin wrote:
> > 
> 
> <snip> As usual, Voldemort got it backwards, it was James who didn't
> have to die.
> 
> Carol responds:
> In that case, JKR and Dumbledore have it wrong, too.

zgirnius:
No, they do not. Who said James had to die? That was Voldemort's 
choice, just as it was his choice not to kill Lily (initially). 
Voldemort had no particular reason to kill James *or* Lily, their 
deaths did not serve any particuaor purpose of which we ever leran, 
he just decided he would kill the whole family. The only one he had 
any reason at all to kill, was Harry, because he feared/believed the 
Prophecy. It said nothing about any threat posed by Harry's parents.

Now, once Voldemort decided to kill them all (a choice owing, it 
would seem, to his tendency to solve most problems that way, see e. 
g. "The Elder Wand"), it transpired that Snape asked him for Lily's 
life, and so Voldemort decided he might change his mind about killing 
them all.