Lily (WHO IS NOT ): the Death Eater

[Scott]

No: HPFGUIDX 2166

Firstly, if my mind serves me correctly, which it probably doesn't, 
Voldemort said Lily needn't of died.  Not that he was going to spare 
her life, just that she didn't HAVE to die, but how many of Voly's 
victims HAD to die, even in Voldy's eyes?

Secondly, I would be REALLY disappointed in JKR if she was to make 
Lily a death eater, though not so much so if she turned out to be a 
Slytherin.  As far as we know it was simple pure and unfettered love 
that saved Harry.  Now that may, or may not be the whole story, but 
despite, Lily still gave her life for Harry and in doing so defied 
all that evil, and therefore Voldemort, stands for.  Now I just 
can't, or at least I won't accept that Lily could be bad and yet 
still have that amount of love.  After all Dumbledore does say that 
the one thing Voldemort cannot understand is love.

Thirdly, if Lily was a death eater then why didn't she kill Harry, or 
at least James herself?  Why would Voldemort have bothered at 
all...After all as a death eater she wouldn't have cared much for her 
family, just for power (remember: There is only power and those to 
weak to seek it.)  But the power of Voldemort is superficial because, 
for reasons we've already disscussed, namely it is siphoned out of 
his followers by fear...True power comes from unity, from faith in 
each other, and from love.

If JKR decides to make Lily a death Eater I, for one, will be very 
upset.  That really would undermine the basic priciples that the 
books are based on. Also, OT but the green Eyes don't make me think 
of Sytherin  but of the unforgivable curses...Maybe Lily survived AK 
as a baby and the green eyes are her mark to prove it...just 
pondering.

Scott 




> Here's a new spin.
> What if Lily was a Death Eater? Maybe she knew V. would kill James 
> that night, but she wasn't counting on V. trying to kill Harry.