Lily's Sacrifice

[Colonel Astudillo]

No: HPFGUIDX 19441

seems right to me.  gives harry some "jesus" mystique.

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., partyperson_dpc at y... wrote:
> Okay, somebody posted that they were disappointed that the only 
> reason that Harry survived and defeated Voldemort were because of 
> Lily's sacrificial death. See, that's what I thought for awhile 
too. 
> But then I started thinking about it more in depth--and I concluded 
> that something other than her sacrifice defeated Voldemort. Because 
> Voldemort killed so many people, don't you think that somewhere 
along 
> the line, some mother must have tried to protect their child and 
died 
> in the process? But no other child got a lightning shaped scar of 
> their forehead and defeated him, right? So I'm thinking Harry must 
> have something VERY special about him. Yes, her sacrifice is what 
> saved him and repelled Voldemort. But what defeated him? I don't 
> think we know that yet. At the end of SS, Dumbledore clearly states 
> that her love and sacrifice were protection against Voldemort, who 
is 
> evil personified and therefore her sacrificial love PROTECTED 
Harry. 
> But what defeated Voldemort? Clearly, there is something to Harry 
> that he and the readers haven't fully realized yet. I could be 
wrong 
> about this--but hey, just stating my opinion. Tell me what ya'll 
> think.
> ~E