Apparently Slytherin was a great wizard but great for what. Rember when harry bought his wand the man said voldermont was a great wizard he just use his powers for bad.
I would even go as far to say draco is a good wizard, he is good at potions it would seem and quick in a duel. Good with spells. But he is still rotten. If you look at the two house record Slytherin puts out more bad wizards then Gryf.
And the theory that everything good happens to Gryff. is false as well. Actually Slytherin had won the house cup and quid. cup seven years running. So the gryff. winning streak just started. Then good stuff dosen't happen to the house it happens to harry.
Well... first of all... we already know that information about why Voldemort was after James Potter (if you remember he didn't want to kill Lily... he just killed her because she wouldn't let him get to Harry) will be included in the 5th book... also... think about all the bad stuff that has happened to Harry as well as the good stuff... Would you really want to go through all of the hoorible things he's been through just to get the little good things out of it? ya, he gets a lot of publicity... but JKR makes it very clear that he doesn't like the publicity...
1. Why did HP's parents have to have a secret keeper?
- i think its clear that its a sort of powerful magic spell that works only when there's true friendship & loyalty between the secret keeper & whoever he/she is hiding - having a secret keeper makes it more difficult for one's location to be found.
2. Why did Voldermort want to kill his parents?
- Dumbledore, i think, said that Lily & James have defied Voldy thrice.. so its not hard to believe that even without the prophecy, Voldy would still be going after Lily & James anyway.
Originally posted by mac11586
If you look at the two house record Slytherin puts out more bad wizards then Gryf.
Actually the only bad wizards we know of are Voldemort and the Malfoys... and to a point the Blacks. For all we know there could have been just as many bad wizards from Gryffindor - after all the views about that are from the characters who are friends of Gryffindor...
Voldemort attacked the Potters because of the prophercy(?) saying that the person that would destroy him would be from parents who had defied him three times. The Potters had - and so had the Longbottoms...
Originally posted by Trickster
Actually the only bad wizards we know of are Voldemort and the Malfoys... and to a point the Blacks. For all we know there could have been just as many bad wizards from Gryffindor - after all the views about that are from the characters who are friends of Gryffindor...Voldemort attacked the Potters because of the prophercy(?) saying that the person that would destroy him would be from parents who had defied him three times. The Potters had - and so had the Longbottoms...