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Open link in a new tab. Voldemort feared that Harry was the one the prophecy was talking about, since he was born at the end of July. That's why he wanted to kill him. Harry's parents were 'just in the way'. Voldemort killed them because they were trying to protect Harry.
Here is the exact prophecy :. The one with the power to vanquish the Dark Lord approaches Because of Sybill Trelawney's prophecy that the one who would vanquish Voldemort. Voldemort believed it was Harry Potter, so he went to kill him.
James and Lily were killed because they were standing in the way of the real goal, Harry's death. Snape had been listening at the door while Trelawney made the prophecy, but did not hear it completely. He repeated what he remembered, and so Voldemort sought to kill Harry as an infant in hopes to avoid being vanquished.
However, Voldemort did not realise that by attempting to kill Harry, he was marking him as his equal. He killed Lily and James because they were in the way of him killing Harry, which was his aim. He wanted to kill Harry because of the prophecy that Sybill Trelawney divination professor at Hogwarts made saying that Voldemort would be defeated by a boy born at the end of July, which Voldemort took to mean Harry the other option was Neville Longbottom. When Dumbledore talks to Harry about the quality he has which Voldemort lacks Philosopher's Stone film, Half-Blood Prince throughout , he's talking about the fact that Harry's capable of love.
Obviously, most people are capable of love but Harry especially is because his parents died while protecting him because they loved him so much- this is mentioned in the book somewhere but I can't remember specifically what was said. The Dark Lord became determined to hunt down the Potters and kill them after hearing part of the prophecy and thinking Harry was going to be the boy with the power to defeat him. Snape tells Dumbledore this, that the Dark Lord believes Harry is the boy meant, and intends to kill the Potters.
However, they were just collateral damage stopping him from getting to his true target. This was all to get to Harry, the one the Dark Lord thought was foretold to defeat him. He was much more cautious when trying to kill Harry than either of his parents.
As the other answers have mentioned, Voldemort wanted to kill Harry because of the prophecy. He killed James because James was trying to stop him. However, what the other answers have not mentioned is that Voldemort explicitly tells us or rather we are privy to his thoughts about why he killed Lily. In Deathly Hallows when Voldemort relives the night of the attack we find:. He could have forced her away from the crib, but it seemed more prudent to finish them all.
That is to say that although Voldemort had not originally planned on killing her, he made an at-the-moment decision to kill her even though he could have achieved his goal without killing her — even after she stood in his way.
He killed Lily and James because they were in the way of him killing Harry. Voldemort wanted to kill Harry vecause of Trelawny's prophecy.
Voldemort actually didn't want to kill Lily because he promised snape he wouldn't. Also Snape didn't like Neville because he could have been the child to defeat the dark Lord and Lily wouldn't have died if that happened. Sign up to join this community. The woman nods silently and beckons again, turning to lead them into another house. Harry notes that a number of picture frames are missing their photographs. He guesses that Rita Skeeter must have taken the missing pictures to reproduce in her book.
Harry asks Bathilda who the young man in the picture is, but she does not respond, instead beckoning Harry to accompany her upstairs while Hermione remains below.
Apparently Bathilda had been dead long before, and the snake was somehow animating her body. Hermione rushes into the room, and Harry and Hermione struggle against the snake both physically and with magic.
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