[HPforGrownups] Lily's death or her love? (was Re: A new Lily Theory: The...

[TaliaDawn3 at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 42063

In a message dated 8/2/02 10:18:40 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
kkearney at students.miami.edu writes:


> Well, that's my theory.  Lily's death wasn't the cause of Harry 
> survival.  Instead, she chose to protect Harry rather than save 
> herself.  Her love for him (and he ability with ancient magic) saved 
> him.

If what you propose is true, then that gets me thinking...let's pretend for a 
moment we all believe in the Heir of Gryffindor thing (just humor me for a 
minute).  Lily knows that Harry has to survive and grow up so he can defeat 
Voldemort because he is the only one who *can*, since Voldemort is the Heir 
of Slytherin and Harry is the Heir of Gryffindor (remember, everyone's 
humoring me!).  Lily, realizing that there is no escape, does the ancient 
spell, saves Harry, and thus ensures the survival of the forces of good.
If that's the plausible scenario, then why hasn't anyone ever told him?  
Dumbledore for example.  He is portrayted as being rather omnipotent and I'm 
sure he would have known about Harry being the only one able to defeat 
Voldemort.  Unless it's one of those things that he must learn about in 
time....
Of course, this is all highly unlikely - but *I* would like it if somehow 
Harry were the *true* Heir of Slytherin (don't ask me how, if JKR wanted to 
do it, she could!) because that would be counterintuitive for us.  Harry's 
good, Slytherin was evil.  And maybe only Heirs of Slytherin can defeat each 
other ... I like my first idea better I think.

~*~*~Talia Dawn~*~*
(Who apologizes for using big/rarely used words....she's doing her AP English 
work and it's making her says odd things.)


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