Grandpa Voldemort

[alhewison]

No: HPFGUIDX 40422

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "Richelle Votaw" <rvotaw at i...> wrote:


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.

> Richelle

To me the difference is that James would have died anyway, but Lily 
ONLY died because she was trying to protect Harry. At the point when 
James shouts to Lily he says that he's going to try and hold 
Voldemort off, what choices did he actually have? I suppose he could 
have dissapparated, but other than run away, he would had to have 
tried to fight Voldemort,hide, or just be killed. The major 
difference between the two appears (although we actually have no 
detailed canon evidence on the James/Voldemort encounter), is that 
Voldemort gave Lily an opportunity to survive, but not James.

Ali