What is Lily's big revelation in Book 5??? Help!

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--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "ghinghapuss" <rredordead at a...> 
wrote:
> I know this has been discussed before and I'm raising it again in 
the 
> hope that 2 months of digesting OotP has shed more light on the 
> subject.
> 
> What is the `something' we find out about Lily in book 5?  Her 
hating 
> James Potter?  (Rowling herself said something would be reveled 
about 
> her in book 5 and even more in book 7.  If anyone out there knows 
> where and when and what the exact quote by JKR is could you let me 
> know?)  
> 
> The only new thing we learned about Lily that I can find was that 
she 
> hated James Potter in their 5th year in school.  Not very unusual 
and 
> very understandable considering whom he was at that time. 
> 
> Mandy


I'm afraid it isn't any more than that.  That is all we learned.  We 
already knew Lily's sacrifice bestowed special gifts.  And the new 
added CONFIRMATION of the protection at 4 Privet is not really about 
Lily herself.  

Lily hated James - or at least thought he was arrogant and 
rude.  'Hate' might be too strong.  

But I have the feeling that what Rowling considers "information" is 
not what I would. For me information has to have meat which adds to 
my understanding.  This only added the question - what did James to 
to change her mind. I suspect he saved her life.  That would explain 
Harry's patronus.  

Why does it have to be important information...

We all expected some great reason why LV was attacking the POtters - 
perhaps related to Lily or perhaps related to James.  It turned out 
to be nothing more or less than he wanted to kill Harry - which was 
obvious from the earlier text. Had we asked ourselves what is the 
most ordinary reason LV could want to kill Harry - Harry's future 
power to overthrow him would have been it.  

The reason it was often rejected is that it seemed too simplistic at 
the time - or too derivative (I often heard that one ...  "JKR would 
never do that - too dervative.  She's more original.")  It also told 
nothing more about LV's reign of terror and functions of his rising 
power. 

We're thinking too hard. 

Golly