'Potter' seems like many other Pureblood names // why Voldie chose Harry

[Catlady (Rita Prince Winston)]

Kneasy wrote in http://groups.yahoo.com/group/the_old_crowd/message/3540 :

A wonderful reminiscence of a Night Bus conductor, and << no-one has
shown the slightest interest in the strangeness of the name Potter for
a pure-blood family. Or is it only me who thinks so? >>

There's a pureblood family named Black, and the descendents of Helga
Hufflepuff are named Smith.

Nora wrote 
in http://groups.yahoo.com/group/the_old_crowd/message/3550 :

<< But I'm still thinking of his reaction to his heritage, finding 
out it was *Mummy* who was magical and the like. I don't think we can
just go "Oh, he wanted power and he'd look for it any which way"; I
think his knowledge of and conception of his heritage has shaped his
specific actions, and in a way which speaks to some degree of True
Belief, not just expediency. Hence picking Harry as the threat, the
'boy like him'--that only obtains if he does believe in those
criteria, after all. >>

Surely picking Harry as the threat because of being mixed-blood like
him was a unconscious choice (probably rationalized with some
'logical' reason why Harry would be more dangerous --- e.g. that no
one named Longbottom could possibly be the hero of a book). I suppose
that 'like him' was more important to the perception of danger than
'mixed-blood'; maybe Dumbledore was just wrong and it was that black
hair that Voldie feared.