OOP: Dumbledore DIDNT explain everything

[darrin_burnett]

No: HPFGUIDX 62423

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Judy" <judy at j...> wrote:
> -CareALotsClouds at a... wrote:
> > > why did James need to die and not Lily? 
> 
> And Darrin replied:
> 
> > There is no canon proving that Lily was specifically meant to be 
> > spared and nothing saying that James was a specific target....
> > James died because he was trying to hold off V-Mort.
> 


Judy:

> Actually, there *is* canon saying that Voldemort tried to spare 
Lily.
>  He repeatedly tells her to stand aside. Now, it's *possible* that
> Voldemort also offered James a chance to cooperate and live, but I
> doubt it. Voldemort *likes* killing people, so why would he
> give a person a chance to live without an ulterior motive for doing
> so?  I think he wasn't willing to spare James, and must have had a
> particular reason to spare Lily. Remember, the Potters were people 
who had already defied him three times, so under ordinary 
circumstances, he'd want them both dead. 

Now me:

He told her TWICE. Page 134, PoA: "Stand aside, you silly 
girl...stand aside, now..."

She didn't. He blasted her away.

That does not indicate to me, as I've stated many times, any 
extraordinary effort to spare her. Sure, it's more than James got, 
but it isn't indicative of any real "I must spare the woman" feeling 
on his part.

The theory I like is that he had an inkling that killing her might be 
problematic, but, underestimating that ancient magic he doesn't 
respect, figured he could handle whatever came of it. Whoops. 
Dummyhead Voldie!

But no, I don't think he made any special effort.

Judy:
 
> Another question is, why give a copy of the prophecy to the Ministry
> in the first place?  It seems like a pointless risk.  Maybe true
> prophecies are automatically recorded, so Dumbledore had no choice?

Now me:

This is an excellent question. Did anyone else get a real "Minority 
Rpeort" vibe with the sphere-like prophecies?

I like the automatically recorded idea. Another suggestion was that D-
Dore should have gone in there and smashed the thing.

My guess is that a prophecy as important as the fall of Voldemort 
probably would have been missed. I'm surprised it's not on display at 
a museum, actually, because most of the WW (and certainly the powers-
that-be) felt V-Mort was dead. 

Darrin
-- OK, the band names start now!

Sphere-Like Prophecies is mine.