Whose prophecy? (was Re: Why Harry?)

[finwitch]

No: HPFGUIDX 54636

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Richelle Votaw" <rvotaw at i...> 
wrote:
> 
> I'm not entirely convinced one way or another, but the strongest 
evidence to me isn't Harry's flashback of Voldemort telling Lily to 
stand aside.  It's Voldemort (SS/PS) telling Harry ". . . your mother 
needn't have died . . . she was trying to protect you . . . "
> 
> This implies that Voldemort had no intentions of killing Lily.  
This could be something as simple as not wanting his wand to overheat 
from too many AK's back to back, or something else entirely.  Which 
could consist of anything from promising one of his DE's to spare 
her, to bribing Peter Pettigrew with Lily's life, to who knows what.
> 

One reason why Voldemort would NOT want to kill Lily: she has saved 
his life once. Life-debt IS deeply honoured by many wizards. 
Voldermort being what he is, he might ignore it - arrogance on his 
part, but that might explain why he'd not just kill off Lily and 
*then* kill Harry. Why was she so special to be offered a life? Other 
mothers might have done the same for their sons and daughters, but 
they never got the chance or Harry wouldn't be so unique...

-- Finwitch