[HPforGrownups] Re: a reason why lily didn't have to die..........

[Laura Ingalls Huntley]

No: HPFGUIDX 82364

> Hickengruendler:
> I really think that some users take Voldemort's words that Lily
> didn't have to die a bit to literally. He said something like "Step
> aside, silly girl", because Harry was his main target. My guess is,
> that he would have killed Lily anyway. Why should we believe anything
> he says? There was no need to kill her, if he really didn't want to.
> He could have stunned her and his way to Harry would have been free.
>

Actually, I think the quote that has more relevance to this topic  
occurs on page 294 of PS/SS, American Edition:

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"How touching..." it hissed. "I always value bravery...Yes, boy, your  
parents were brave...I killed your father first, and he put up a  
courageous fight...but your mother needn't have died...she was trying  
to protect you...Now give me the Stone, unless you want her to have  
died in vain."

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And then, of course, there are Dumbledore's assertions that Harry's  
protection came from his mother *sacrificing* her life for him out of  
love.

I'm not exactly sure where I stand on all this, especially since the  
only reason I can think of for Voldie to spare Lily has "Property of  
the Good Ship  LOLLIPOPS" written all over it.  However, I think it is  
at *least* strong implied in the books that Lily *chose* to die in  
order to save Harry.

Laura (who really ought to be writing a physics lab right now.)

P.S. Voldemort values bravery?  *blinks* What gives?