[HPforGrownups] Grandpa Voldemort

[Suzanne Chiles]

No: HPFGUIDX 40409

Richelle asked:
> Unless he
> knew that something would happen to protect Harry if she died protecting
> him, which I don't think he did.  I'm also still confused why it
> was Lily's
> sacrifice that protected Harry from Quirrell/Voldemort when James
> also died
> to protect him.  Both of them, actually.
>

I don't have any children myself, but my closest friend has a son, aged 10
months. The connection between the two is amazing; they seem completely in
sync and their thoughts joined. I certainly know that in the relationship I
have with my own mother, this is true. Even when I moved 2000 miles away
from my parents, whenever I was in trouble, my mother has called me on the
phone and wanted to know what the problem was. It's a connection that's been
in place for 52 years, my lifetime and is still there.

This anecdotal evidence, to me, bolsters the concept that his mother's love
and her sacrifice that gave Harry his protection.

This in now way denigrates the love that Harry's father had, nor does it
make his sacrifice for his wife and child any less profound or meaningful.
But the connection between a mother and child, especially at that very young
age, is some pretty special.

Zo