Lily Evans Potter relationship to Voldemort

[darrin_burnett]

No: HPFGUIDX 58035

Annemehr:

> 
> 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."
> 

This is an intriguing idea and I suppose LV could have wanted to 
avoid killing her so she could live with the knowledge that her 
husband and son were dead. 

I'd also like to reintroduce James and Lily's wealth. We have no idea 
how it compares to say, the Malfoys, but if it is anywhere close, 
perhaps the Potters were, essentially, the treasurers, the 
bankrollers, for the fight against V-Mort. 

But we've also gotten away, to my way of thinking, from the point 
I've been trying to make. And I don't think I've gotten an answer.

If V-Mort wanted to spare Lily, it seems he made a poor effort. Two 
verbal warnings against an apparently wandless witch who, though 
talented, is probably no match in a head-to-head for V-Mort really 
doesn't indicate to me any kind of effort to spare her life.

Had he wanted her to live, I think he could have made it happen. To 
me, the line to Harry about her "needn't have died" is likely just a 
taunt.

Darrin