harry's secret

[Indigo]

No: HPFGUIDX 22066

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "Susan Hall" <shall at s...> wrote:
> >And the reason Lily
> didn't have to die is that if she outlived her husband she wouldn't
> >be bearing any more Potter children.

> Well, provided Voldemort pregnancy tested her before sparing her 
life and it
> came up negative, that is.

Well, even if she bore another child, they could take that baby and 
kill him/her just as they intended to kill Harry and let Lily live.  
There had to be a reason for that.  Otherwise, why would the bad guy 
spare the wife of his enemy, who is also the mother of a potentially 
greater enemy? 
> 

> 
> I've never believed the Voldemort line about "she needn't have 
died".  I
> always assumed that if she had stood aside on his instruction he 
would have
> murdered Harry and then turned round and said "Let your last 
thought be that
> you didn't have the guts to stand between me and your only son" and 
killed
> her.  

I doubt that.  He does have some modicum, however skewed, of honor 
when it comes to wizards.

I mean, Voldemort even in his Tom Riddle persona does seem to be
> something of a sexist git (no female DEs at the reunion, either, 
that I could see  - and JKR is generally careful to slip a few women 
in even if she doesn't make a song and dance about it, in the World 
Cup teams for example) but an eviloverlord who spares a powerful and 
effective magician purely on the grounds of her sex after having 
murdered her husband and baby in front  of her not only hasn't read 
the handbook but hasn't listened to Steeleye Span singing Famous 
Flower of Serving Men and sundry other folk songs on a
> similar theme, either.
> 

Actually,  Voldemort noted quite strongly that the Lestranges, a 
*husband and wife team* of Death Eaters were missing, languishing in 
Azkaban rather than sell him down the river. He said that they would 
be "rewarded beyond their wildest dreams" when he was restored.  So I 
don't think he's as sexist as all that.  Otherwise he'd have just 
said  something to the effect of "Lestrange and his wife are still in 
Azkaban. Lestrange will be rewarded handsomely for his faithfulness 
and loyalty and his wife shall be given a nod as is becoming to a 
female who knows her place is at the right hand of her man."  That he 
regards *both* of them as loyal to him [and in some cases more loyal 
than the Death Eaters who apparated into the circle] is an indication 
that he has grown at least partially out of his 16 year old gender 
arrogance.

Indigo