Lily Evans Potter relationship to Voldemort

[annemehr]

No: HPFGUIDX 58034

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "alexcukier" <acukier at u...> 
wrote:
> Darrin wrote:
>> pg 134 UK (Grim Defeat)
>> - Not Harry, please no, take me, kill me instead--"
>> Later on the page. "-Not Harry! Please... have mercy... have 
>>mercy..."
>> Obviously we don't know for sure that this is what really happened, 
>> but I tend to believe this is Harry's subconscious memories, and 
>>they 
>> are fairly accurate.
>> And in the first film, the James and Lily death scene, which 
>>Lexicon 
>> (I believe) considers canon because JKR wrote it, Lily wasn't 
>> attacking."
> 
> Now Alex:
> 
> I believe that we are in the right track about the real motives 
> Voldemort had to kill Harry. If you read carefully the quote above 
we 
> can see that:
> 1) Lilly knew that Voldemort wanted to kill Harry (possibly the 
> motive, too).
> 2) She believed(or hoped) that she could be killed instead of Harry 
> (what turns stronger that she would know the motive).
> 3) Voldemort were ther to kill at least Harry and SHE REALLY COULD 
> NOT BE KILLED, or her words would be in vain (because she would be 
> killed anyways...)
> 
> That brings the old discussion about Mrs Trellawney first correct 
> prediction or some black magic in order to give voldemort esternal 
> Life.
> 
Annemehr:

Alex, you have piqued my interest with your #2 point above.  However, 
I am going to hop right off the line of thinking about Trelawney's 
first prediction, because it's in danger of turning into a cliche.

So, you point out that it seems Lily believed she could be killed 
*instead* of Harry, eh?  I have an idea... 

What if Lily had done something *big* in the fight against Voldemort? 
 What if she'd personally *earned* Voldemort's fury?  Perhaps Lily had 
come up with a very effective charm or something that is now giving 
the DE's trouble or had foiled a plot close to LV's heart?  And since 
then LV has been (patiently, for over a year) out for revenge.

And the revenge is to be the death of her child.

So, her last words are, "take me instead," and, "have mercy."

Annemehr

"I am /not/ going to be murdered," Harry said out loud.
"That's the spirit, dear," said his mirror sleepily.