[HPforGrownups] Re: Would Lily have been spared?/AK curse

[Amanda Geist]

No: HPFGUIDX 42227

Darrin said:

> If he wanted to spare her, he could have. Just cast Crucio, paralyze
> her with pain, roll her over and then boom, free shot at Harry. Get
> rid of Crucio as you walk out the door and then disparate away.

This is, actually, yet another circumstantial support for Jan's and Grey
Wolf's theory that Lily's death was a component of a spell to protect him.
Voldemort wanted Lily to voluntarily step away, offers her her life. For
some reason her will mattered, here. She refused, and by their theory, her
willing and loving death was the last element needed for a powerful
protection spell to shield Harry. And it worked.

He didn't want her alive. He wanted her to move. He could so easily just
have killed her too, without speaking....why else would he bother, unless
there was some objective to getting her out of the way?

--Amanda