[HPforGrownups] Re: Why NOT Lily? (was: Lily, Harry, and Voldemort's demise)

[Catherine Coleman]

No: HPFGUIDX 41988

In message <00d401c2399d$7c7227e0$3ca0cdd1 at istu757>, Richelle Votaw 
<rvotaw at i-55.com> writes
>Rowena writes:
>> This brings up something I've been wondering ever since I first read
>PoA.
>Why
>> WASN'T Lily a target? 

Richelle continued:
>That's where I get my "Lily is Voldemort's daughter" theory.  :)  Long
>story.  Obviously, she couldn't be intended to die, or else her death
>wouldn've been a "sacrifice" and Harry wouldn've had protection he'd be
>dead, Voldemort would rule the world and actually we'd have had no
>books to
>read to begin with.  Anyway, I do think, though, that JKR has a very
>important reason as to why Lily wasn't an intended victim. 

I don't buy this importance of Lily thing here - I think it's more to do 
with the fact that JKR wanted to draw attention to the fact that there 
was something special about the Potters.  Voldemort wanted to kill James 
and Harry - it was important for him to kill the "last Potters" as 
Sirius spells out in POA - interesting wording that - not Harry Potter, 
but the last Potter.  Why?

If this is the case, I think it's a bit clumsy, because from what we've 
heard of Voldemort he is totally ruthless and kills for pleasure, so why 
should he tell Lily to "stand aside"?

I'm not discounting anything at this point because JKR has a great 
ability to surprise, but I think she's giving us little clues here and 
there that it was the Potters, not Harry, who Voldemort was interested 
in.

Catherine