[HPforGrownups] Death Order; Snape

[Amanda Lewanski]

No: HPFGUIDX 1659

<spoiler warning, end of book 4 stuff>

summers.65 at osu.edu wrote:

> I've said this before and I'll say it again...I DO NOT buy the whole
> "protected by the love" argument.  You cannot tell me that in all the
> people Moldy Voldy killed that no one had ever died to protect someone else
> before that.

No, no, the whole point was that *Lily* was doing the protecting in this case.
There's no question that others died in defense of their loved ones, and it
yielded them nothing. But I think there's something special about Lily that we
haven't been told yet. In book 1, Dumbledore was clearly not telling Harry
everything, but what he *did* tell him was true---I think she did exactly what
Dumbledore said she did, protected him (*something* did, since Quirrell
couldn't even *touch* him), but I think Dumbledore left out a whole lot about
exactly how, simplified it for Harry. And why was Voldemort so insistent that
it be Harry's blood that revived him? to incorporate/bypass the protection, the
"old magic" that has not been explained?

My new thought had been, now that I've been listening to the whole "death
order" debate, that she might have shielded James just a bit, too. But since
James was not a blood relative, it didn't save him. Harry is of her line; it
was more potent there. And we do not yet know what "it" is.

--Amanda