Lily Evans Potter relationship to Voldemort

[annemehr]

No: HPFGUIDX 58036

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "darrin_burnett" <bard7696 at a...> 
wrote:
> Annemehr:
> 
> > 
> > What if Lily had done something *big* in the fight against 
> Voldemort? 
[...] 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.
> > 
 
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[Darrin:] 
> 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

Annemehr:

Well, if LV was killing Harry to get revenge on Lily, the scene could 
make sense I think.

First of all, Lily knows her son is going to die (so LV thinks).  He 
would like it just fine if she watched it happen, but he knows that 
she knows that Harry will be dead whether she stands aside or not.  
Either way, the revenge still happens.  I think having her *stand 
aside* (i.e. expose Harry to death) rather than merely restraining her 
is part of the torture, if he could get her to do it.  If not, he just 
blasts both of them.

The weak point in this theory is that you might think he *would* 
rather tie her up and make her watch rather than kill her first.  
Maybe he just wanted to sweep them aside and get on to other things, 
though -- like Cedric.  They weren't going to mess up his plans any 
more after that.

Come to think of it, Lucius Malfoy called the Potters "meddling," so 
they must have done *something* to call down LV's wrath...

Annemehr
No band names, but "Stand Aside" would be a good name for a *song*.