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in the middle of the night

Since my last update I have:
Attended two concerts;
cleaned my room;
cleaned my sister's apartment;
gone out to mother's day dinner with family;
made a new default lj icon;
played Neverwinter Nights for the first time.

From this I have learned:
Carmina Burana doesn't make any sense even if you have English lyrics, but it sounds pretty;
Unitarian churches are cool;
I *really* need to do laundry;
I'm going to miss my sister's roommate's cat;
The Wizards of the Coast logo looks far too much like the Baltimore Ravens';
My family really is too wonderful to be allowed, and I love them all.

Also, after five years standing on the shore, I have finally come up with my Grand Theory of Why Voldemort Wanted to Kill Harry Potter. Which makes far too much sense, yet is sadly underrepresented in what I've seen of the fandom. I s'pose I'll have to reread the books again for evidence. *After* finals.

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I could be wrong, but wouldn't Voldemort's whole "kill Harry" thing be a pride issue. I mean, he killed Lily and James because they stood up to him, so it would make sense he would try to kill Harry, too. Failing to do so the first time freaked him out and stuck in his mind, so he had to kill Harry later, just to prove that he could! It's a matter of an evil Wizard's pride!

Or not, I've only read the first book so far, so I may be missing something.
Feel free to bash my mini-theory, if you do indeed exist... :D

And yes, the WotC logo does look like the Ravens logo, but Wizards had theirs longer. :D

Leo . . .?
Oh my, it's Leo! :)

The question isn't why he wants to kill Harry now, but why he wanted to the first time, especially since he was willing to let Lily live.

Oh.

Like I said, I didn't read too far into the series, (although I plan to) so I don't really have the insight to even say what I said so far ;)

PS: I'm also Louis, and I hit a little snag on the Black Hole fanfic, so it may take a bit longer.

So what is your theory?

Here goes, then:

Harry's father James, (who is canonically an old-money pureblood just like all the other DE's we know of) became a Death Eater right out of school. He had You-Know-Who's approval to marry innocent Lily-the-Mudblood, in an attempt to see whether halfblood wizards were inherently more powerful than Purebloods or Muggleborns (á la hybrid vigour). This possibly included in utero experiments on Harry.

Then, when Harry was born, James was overcome with fatherly and husbandly love, repented, and went to Dumbledore the same way Snape did. Only, being a Gryffindor, he was too obvious about it to become a spy. Instead he had to go in hiding with the family to escape Nameless's vengeance.

Which didn't work. He killed James for betraying him, didn't care about Lily because she was just a hapless Mudblood tool, and tried to kill Harry because he was afraid Harry could be used against him.

We have Dumbledore for some reason hesitating to tell Harry why his father was killed, and JKR saying in an interview that James' former career would be important to the story.

--okay, it sounded much more impressive before I wrote it out.

Since I'm assuming that the pre-birth events are right, then that theory actually makes some sort of sense. If I were a power-mad evil wizard who was trying to breed a super-wizard, and something went awry (my favorite word!), I'd probably want to get rid of the rugrat, too! The last thing anyone needs is to be dropped by one's own sort-of-but-not-really-but-maybe-indirect creation!

With V-- err... you-know-who's distaste for mudbloods, wouldn't the idea of crossbreeding be a disgusting notion to Him?

Besides, Harry can't be the first person to be born of a purblood wizard and a mudblood, can he?

PS: I wound up double posting this into your current journal entry, since I still don't quite know how these kind of updates work...

Is Neverwinter Nights good? Brian Clevinger was raving about it awhile back, and I'm sort of "into" RPGs, so I thought I would try it out. What's your opinion? Is it anything like Morrowind (if you've played that)

Actually, this was the first rpg I've played since King's Quest 5.^.^ So I don't really have any basis for comparison. And I only got through the introductory arc. And I haven't played tabletop D&D yet either.

It was somewhat less impressive than I expected, particularly the graphics and the fighting, though I'm sure my expectations were unreasonably high.

My knowledge of Morrowind is limited to the Mog mod on MacHall (http//machall.com). So I'm afraid I'll have to be entirely unhelpful here.

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in the middle of the night

Just a thought on the whole Voldemort-Harry Issue.

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Well, actually...

Maybe I'm beating a dead horse, but...

Oh! Forgot to ask!

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