[HPforGrownups] Lily Evans Potter relationship to Voldemort

[Ephrem B]

No: HPFGUIDX 57992

This is just my opinion as to why Voldemort didn't try to kill Lily first.  In the books in all the recollections of the night Voldemort killed James and Lily, I didn't read anything about Lily having her wand.  So far that I've read most charms and curses performed by anyone required a wand.  I have read that wands are required to perform the more complicated spells.  Without her wand, Lily wouldn't have been able to put up much of a fight.  There's two reasons I can think of why she didn't have a wand.  One, she did try to fight with her wand, but got taken away from her (expelliarmus spell?) and then she protected Harry after she lost her wand and we just didn't hear that part of the battle during the flashbacks in PoA when the Dementors came close to Harry.  Or two, just didn't have time to get to her wand as she tried to get to Harry first and try to run.  These are some reasons why she couldn't defeat Voldemort.  But I'm sure there are others.

"Ephrem B"