[HPforGrownups] Re: Lily Evans Potter relationship to Voldemort

[rayheuer3 at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 58373

YahooGroups at TaprootTech.com writes:

> The puzzle to me is why Voldemort would expect that Lily would, after
> he told her to stand aside, just stand there and let him kill her
> baby.  She didn't do that, but why did he even have a glimmer of an
> expectation that she would?  

Voldemort, like most megalomaniacal villains, simply doesn't conceive of a 
victim fighting back.  The Dark Lord has ordered Lily to stand aside, therefore, 
Lily will stand aside.  No other result even enters his mind.

 Okay, so he doesn't have any
> 
> understanding of the real depth and potency of mother love.  He still
> knows that she is Harry's last protector, and must have known
> (intellectually if not viscerally) that a mother protecting her child
> is a fierce adversary.  He is no fool, and yet wanted to attack an
> infant while that infant's only protector stood beside him.   

IIRC, Voldemort (that is to say Tom Riddle, Jr.) never really knew his 
mother. His childhood was spent with his father and paternal grandparents, all 
Muggles.  This is one of the ways that the early life of the boy who was to become 
Voldemort parallels that of Harry Potter.  Which, again, makes it miraculous 
that Harry is so well balanced.

  --  Ray


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