/Why would *anyone* think the fact that the child survived was due to anything that the *child* did -- or was./
Possibly because he survived while his parents didn't. The whole 'Boy Who Lived' moniker is created by the fact that Harry is the only person to survive Voldemort's wrath, the only person who has survived the Killing Curse (as Moody tells us in GoF). I mean, yes, it sounds silly - how could a baby do anything? - but the fact that he survived *and* somehow was the cause of Voldemort's demise gave rise to the idea that he must have been special in some way.
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Date: 2010-09-14 11:25 pm (UTC)Possibly because he survived while his parents didn't. The whole 'Boy Who Lived' moniker is created by the fact that Harry is the only person to survive Voldemort's wrath, the only person who has survived the Killing Curse (as Moody tells us in GoF). I mean, yes, it sounds silly - how could a baby do anything? - but the fact that he survived *and* somehow was the cause of Voldemort's demise gave rise to the idea that he must have been special in some way.