[HPforGrownups] Whose prophecy? (was Re: Why Harry?)

[Richelle Votaw]

No: HPFGUIDX 54615

bboy_mn:

> What makes you think Voldemort wanted to spare Lily or that he would have?

I'm not entirely convinced one way or another, but the strongest evidence to me isn't Harry's flashback of Voldemort telling Lily to stand aside.  It's Voldemort (SS/PS) telling Harry ". . . your mother needn't have died . . . she was trying to protect you . . . "

This implies that Voldemort had no intentions of killing Lily.  This could be something as simple as not wanting his wand to overheat from too many AK's back to back, or something else entirely.  Which could consist of anything from promising one of his DE's to spare her, to bribing Peter Pettigrew with Lily's life, to who knows what.

Or it could just be a matter of wording that isn't really meant to imply anything at all.  There's a lot of "ifs" involved here.

Richelle


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