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Yes, he should have chosen Dumbledore as Secret Keeper. |
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40 | 12.31% |
Partly. He and Lily should not have agreed to switch to Peter. |
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26 | 8.00% |
No, he could not have anticipated such a betrayal. Hindsight is twenty-twenty. |
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110 | 33.85% |
No, he trusted his friends, something that paid off for Harry in DH, despite Remus' warning. |
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89 | 27.38% |
The only one to blame is Voldemort. |
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43 | 13.23% |
Oh dear, I never like Moriath's options. |
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8 | 2.46% |
Something else entirely that hopefully doesn't include Snape. |
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9 | 2.77% |
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Re: James Potter: Character Analysis v.4
I think she wrote more, but it didn't make the final cut.
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Re: James Potter: Character Analysis v.4
You know, I actually think you're somewhat right, when it comes down to it. I do believe James was important because he was Harry's hero when Harry had no one else to look up to and no one else to talk to (when he was at the Dursley's before attending Hogwarts), and he gave Harry some amount of solace. But I have to agree he wasn't "pivotal" to the present story of defeating Voldemort. Harry's vision of him was important, but James himself never really impacted the story going forward, if that makes sense.
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I was just thinking about how Voldemort chose to personally deal with the Potters. We know that he sent Bellatrix et al after the Longbottoms who were trained aurors. Why, other than plot contrivance, did Voldemort go after the Potters himself? Was it because Lily was uber powerful, or it it more likely that it was James's pureblood status?
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There was that moment in Chamber of Secrets where Diary Tom noted to Harry that he and Harry even looked somewhat alike-- and Harry looks like James. This means that James would have also looked similar to young Tom Riddle. I think that was one factor in Voldemort fixating on Harry, whether he did so with awareness or subconsciously. Voldemort knew that he himself looked like his own father; a wizard who was their likeness having a son who could be the Prophecy Baby was probably to much of a lure for a guy who believed in destiny.
But I agree with cardinalguy that Voldemort would have likely tried to get both Harry and Neville, given the opportunity.
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I don't think it had anything to do with Lily or James, although he did try to get them to join him and they refused. I don't think it was revenge for that either, but because of the Prophecy alone. JKR was very roundabout when she talked about it, but the main point is whether Neville's parents would have sacrificed themselves for Neville as Lily did for Harry, giving him the magical blood protection. The original link to JKR's website isn't working, but here's the quote from JKR: http://www.harrypotterspage.com/foru...showtopic=3959 Quote:
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I thought Voldemort sent Bella after the Longbottoms to torture them for information rather than having anything to do with their potentially being associated with the prophecy.
If I recall correctly, when Snape went crying to Dumbledore for help, he said 'he thinks it's her' or something along those lines - meaning that Voldemort had decided on the Potters. As a plot point, Snape should have just taken a posse and killed Harry and James himself, since he didn't give two twigs about them at the time. Then Voldy would have no reason to chase down Lily and Snape could have stayed in his master's good graces. But that point aside, I think Snape made it clear that the only interest Voldy had was in the Potters and that is why he went after them himself.
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Voldemort probably went after Harry first because Harry was a Half-Blood like Voldemort was. Maybe he figured "Well, being a Half-Blood kept me from being an inbred idiot like the rest of my Maternal family so maybe being a Half-Blood will make him strong too. Better go for him first."
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I wonder if it simply came down to the fact that the Longbottoms were Aurors and the Potters were not. They both defied him three times but the potters did it out of loyalty to Dumbledore and the Longbottoms did because that was their jobs. James and Lily wanted to prevent Voldemort from winning the war and were willing to risk their lives to do so. The Longbottoms fought him because it was their duty as Aurors. Maybe to Voldemort that made the Potters more of a threat and their son more likely to be the chosen one.
James must have tried wandless magic to defend his family but I feel that for James like for most wizards wandless magic is not as easily controlled and he simply did his best for his family and died trying.
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Imagine if we met Harry through Draco's memories? Or Ron through Draco's memories. Better yet imagine if we met Ron through Mclaggen's memories. I think James was a very import character, and if we'd seen any of the Marauders memories I think we would have seen a more complete picture of James. I do think a lot of Snape's hatred of James is displaced anger at Lily. I think Snape completely blames James (and himself) for his loss of Lily. I don't think Snape really ever emotionally processed that Lily really did love James.
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But, importantly, not just from Draco's, but Ron's, Hermione's, Hagrid's, Tonks's. That balanced but doubly biased picture of Harry would be akin to what we have for James.
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Re: James Potter: Character Analysis v.4
The opinions we got were biased. But the important factswere also available to us and those were also supposed to tell a lot about his character. For example, the fact that his patronus was the same as Harry's - and all that means for Harry and how it would relate to James is a fact set out by Rowling. So we knew a lot from James through the facts we learned - the 'what'.
On the whole, he was the greatest character never to live in the books, in my view anyway.
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