[HPforGrownups] Re: Lily Evans Potter relationship to Voldemort

[rayheuer3 at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 58090

ivanova at idcnet.com writes:

> >Poster-Who-Can't-Be-Named-Because-I-Don't-Know-Who-It-Was said:
> <That would be me>

<<Snippage of my post and Darrin's response about Lily offering herself to 
Voldy in order to save her child>>

> I rule this one out basically because, although many adults read this series
> and JKR has admitted she's writing these books for herself, I can't see 
> what
> is still considered a children's book introducing this theme.  "If you 
> don't
> kill me, I'll let you and all your buddies have my body!"  I don't think 
> so.

Just as children know that Elmer Fudd lusting after Bugs Bunny in a dress and 
lipstick is funny without knowing quite why, Lily's unspoken offer to 
Voldemort is for the adults who know "the secret".  I agree that she could 
never make the offer explicitly in a children's book, but the fact us, she 
didn't.  Likewise, she didn't say "kill me instead", she said, "take me 
instead".  

  --  Ray


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