Lily: the Death Eater

[milz]

No: HPFGUIDX 2167

Well, IF Lily was a Death Eater, it doesn't necessarily means she was 
as corrupt as V (since V. is about as corrupt as you can get, IMO). 
Malfoy, Crabbe, and Goyle are Death Eaters with 
children and while we really don't know the extent of their parental 
love it seems that there is some.

It would be a blow to Death Eater Lily that V. double crossed her
 and went after Harry once he had killed James ("No not 
Harry!")especially if it was her understanding that V. would only 
kill James. V.'s command for the "foolish girl" to stand aside is 
revealing his lack of understanding love. Maybe he thinks her to be 
foolish because she is choosing love (for Harry) over power? Maybe at 
the moment she realized V. was going to kill Harry, she had a change 
of heart and her sacrifice was the only fitting way to redeem
herself? 
Afterall, Snape managed to see the light and un-Death Eater'd
himself. 
could Lily have had that kind of revelation when V. double crossed 
her?

BTW, I would be kind of disappointed if Lily was a Death Eater 
too...but it's an interesting thought.
;-) 


--- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, "Scott " <harry_potter00 at y...> 
wrote:
> 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.