Lily's protection (Was: Harry as 'resilient' child abuse survivor)

[marinafrants]

No: HPFGUIDX 53846

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Catlady (Rita Prince 
Winston)" <catlady at w...> wrote:
> Here is my oft-repeated theory: I think Lily was able, with her 
> magic, to put an image of herself in her baby's mind, that would 
be 
> like an 'imaginary mum' (by analogy with 'imaginary friend') who 
> would cuddle Harry and tell him that he's a good kid who doesn't 
> deserve Dursley abuse and tell him about how decent people behave, 
> thus being that one caring adult ("example of goodness" in 
previous 
> paragraph) said to be necessary to even a 'resilient' child's 
> survival of serious abuse... I kind of think Lily used her last 
magic 
> to put this image in his head intentionally, instead of using her 
> last magic in one last attempt to escape Voldemort. That is the 
> heroic self-sacrifce that canon credits her, accepting her own 
death 
> because it was more important to her to give this protection (from 
> abusive Dursleys) of her love.

But why would Lily feel the need to give Harry protection against 
the Dursley's?  Unlike the rest of the WW, she knew Sirius wasn't 
her Secret-Keeper, and she didn't know he was going to get framed 
and end up in Azkaban.  According to Sirius himself, James and Lily 
had wanted him to take care of Harry if anything happened to them.  
So as far as Lily knew, if Harry somehow survived Voldemort's 
attack, he'd end up being raised by his loving godfather, so no 
extra protection against abusive adults would be necessary.

Marina
rusalka at ix.netcom.com