Yet another Snape Theory

[Sam Brown]

No: HPFGUIDX 2140

> Another point - may have been raised before - why do you think  
> Voldemort told Harry that "your mother needn't have died" ? 

I doubt that when Voldemort came after the Potters he had any 
intention of allowing Lily to live even if she came up Harry. It's 
likely to be V's way of torturing Harry. I don't have the book on 
hand but I believe that in PoA Harry had a memory of V saying to 
Lily 'you don't need to die' or some such line. Again, this is V's 
way of torturing his victims. Gosh, he's so evil!!!