Surviving the AK, mother's sacrifice, more V/H parallels

[sofdog_2000]

No: HPFGUIDX 74944

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, EnsTren at a... wrote:
> Harry Potter survived the Killing Curse because his mother's sacrifice which 
> it bounced off of, and hit Voldemort.  Therefore Voldemort's own killing curse 
> has hit himself.
> 
> And as we all know Voldemort didn't die.  Harry isn't the only one to survive 
> the killing curse.
> 
> Why is that?
> 
> I was reading a fanfic and it made an excellent point.
> 
> Harry survived because his mother gave her life for him.
> 
> Did not the Heiress of Slytherin make the same sacrifice for Tom?  To give 
> her life so that he could live?
> 
> Doesn't that entitle the Dark Lord to some protection as well?
> 
> 
> 
> Nemi
>  

Sof: Well, Voldemort did explain in GoF that he had taken several measures to protect 
himself against death. I'm not sure a mother dying in childbirth quite counts as a 
"sacrifice." Lily Potter offered her life in exchange for Harry's, a deal Voldemort was 
unwilling to make. She went in knowing that it was her life for Harry's (though 
perhaps not knowing that she would still die and *that* would save Harry). If 
Voldemort's mother didn't expect to die in childbirth and proceed regardless of the 
cost to herself, then it really doesn't count as a willing sacrifice does it?