Why NOT Lily? (was: Lily, Harry, and Voldemort's demise)

[rowena_forest]

No: HPFGUIDX 42030

I wrote:
> > Every description of that night implies that Lily was
> > killed only because she protected Harry from Voldemort.  Even 
> > Harry's own flashes of recall show Voldemort telling Lily 
> > to "Stand aside, you silly girl."  

To which Richelle replied:

> 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.  

My comments:

I don't know that I would necessarily believe her to be his 
daughter.  Firstly because Voldemort has shown no signs that those 
type of connections matter much to him.  I also don't think that he 
would have found anyone "worthy enough" to produce a child with.  
(Purely speculation on my part of course.)

>From the tone of Lily's pleas, I also think that to protect Harry she 
would have said anything, pulled out all stops.  That would include 
appealing to familial ties if there were any.  Unless the Voldemort 
was extremely patient and the pleading actually was longer than what 
we've seen, this didn't happen.  (But who knows, I could be 
wrong.   :-]   )

Richelle further wrote:

> Anyway, I 
> do think, though, that JKR has a very important reason as to why 
> Lily wasn't an intended victim.  And the only thing that I have to 
> go on is the "stand aside" parts and the "I'll do anything" from 
> Lily and the green eyes.  There is something about those green 
> eyes.  But what?  If only I knew what color Tom Riddle's eyes were. 
> <sigh>

To which I reply:

I do agree with you here.  There's definitely a reason why it appears 
to have been only James & Harry who were targets.  I guess this is 
one of those things that we just need to wait and see what further 
information comes to light.

~ Rowena Forest ~