[HPforGrownups] Re: Why Voldemort doesn't challenge Dumbledore?

[Ana Vencloviene]

No: HPFGUIDX 29204



Cindy wrote:

>I don't see any holes, but I can give a potentially provocative
>answer to why Voldemort did not need to kill Lily.  Perhaps one only
>obtains a boost to one's power by killing men, not women.  Perhaps a
>woman's power cannot be taken.  Instead, women give their power
>and "protection" voluntarily, the way Lily gave her protection to
>Harry.  So maybe Voldemort did not get stronger by killing Lily (or
>Bertha Jorkins).
>

What I was wondering about is why V. hesitated to kill Lily in the first 
place. Why would he yell at her "Stand aside, stupid girl!"?  In GoF we were 
demonstrated that his usual position is "kill the spare". Why didn't he 
regard Lily as a spare?  My guess is she must have been special to him in 
some way.

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