[HPforGrownups] Lily's sacrifice for Harry's (was:Whose prophecy? (was Re: Why Harry?))

[Carrie S]

No: HPFGUIDX 54687

This whole idea has bugged me since I read SS the first time, and this is the best suggestion yet, I think, that explains why James' sacrifice doesn't get any credit. Anything else just doesn't make sense to me. What also goes along with this theory is other parents must have died trying to protect their children from Voldemort, yet the children don't survive. If they didn't know the Charm and Llily does, or if it only works on Harry because of his lineage, then there you go.
Carrie
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: iluvgahan 
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  Sent: Tuesday, April 01, 2003 10:36 PM
  Subject: [HPforGrownups] Lily's sacrifice for Harry's (was:Whose prophecy? (was Re: Why Harry?))



  Now me:

  I apologize if this was covered to death or if this
  suggestion was already brought up, but I am fairly new and
  I don't recall having seen it, so here goes. 
  I was thinking about *why* James' sacrifice did not account
  for any protection over Harry (and Lily for that matter)
  and I keep thinking about that scene in SS when Harry is in
  Ollivander's Shop, getting his wand.  Ollivander makes it a
  point of saying that James' wand was good for
  Transfiguration, and we find out later in PoA that James
  was an Animagus.  Ollivander also says, IIRC, that Lily's
  wand was good for Charms.  So I took it to mean that James'
  holding off Voldemort was not so much giving Lily and Harry
  a means of escape(although I'm sure that might have been a
  part of it)but maybe giving Lily a chance to perform a
  charm over Harry to protect him.  Any thoughts or am I way
  off base?




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