[HPforGrownups] Re: Lily Potter's Name/Evans is Welsh

[millergal8 at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 44080

In a message dated 9/16/02 11:36:28 AM Pacific Daylight Time, 
sugarkadi at aol.com writes:

<< I think Lily's saving Harry has much more than just her love going for it. 
 Voldemort supposedly killed a *lot* of people when he was in power, and I'm 
sure he killed some kids/babies of the parents he killed.  No doubt some of 
those parents tried to protect their kids, but Voldemort managed to kill 
them; only Harry stopped him.  In my opinion, the whole purpose of the series 
is to find out why Harry didn't die.  It is directly connected to Lil's love, 
of course, but there must be something else we'll find out at the end of the 
series.  
 Okay, does anyone understand what I just said?  I tried to word it so it 
makes some sense.  =)
 ~Katey
  >>
I agree with you 100%.  While love does have a magic of its own, it still 
isn't enough to ward off death.  If you use that as an arguement, 
theoretically, a non-wizard mother could throw herself in front of an armed 
assailant for her child and the next bullet would rebound on the criminal.  
No, magic has _everything_to do with Harry surviving that night.  I believe 
Lily's sacrifice somehow magnified the magic she had within her, but there is 
also something unique to Harry that we don't know about yet.  Perhaps no one 
knows what is inside Harry.  And V'mort, thinking he is now invincible to 
Lily's sacrifice magic will now be ultimately destroyed (or as ultimately 
destroyed as the personification of evil can be) by -Harry's- secret weapon.

Christy