green eyes and the killing curse

[Wanda Sherratt]

No: HPFGUIDX 79430

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "nionetinuviel" <athenaq at e...> 
wrote:
> I have to disagree. I think Lily is the key to the whole thing. 
The 
> only reason Harry survived Avada Kedavra was because of Lily. SHE 
> made the choice to sacrifice herself and give Harry a future.
> 
> Which is why this idea of V'mort marking anyone as an equal is 
> bugging me. Without Lily, both Neville and Harry would have simply 
> died. Lily changed all that when she saved Harry. Lily made the 
> choice, not V'mort. The only choice V'mort made was to target the 
> boys to be killed. (Which is why I think the prophecy is bogus & I 
> dont trust Dumbeldores interpretation of it.)
> 

I'm not perfectly convinced that Lily's sacrifice is the reason why 
Harry survived AK.  I think it did *something*, but I'm not sure it 
did that.  Dumbledore tells Harry that her death provided him with a 
lingering protection, so he is safe as long as he lives with the 
Dursleys.  That is one definite consequence of Lily's death.  Harry 
attributes his survival of Voldemort's attack to that as well, when 
he confronts Tom Riddle in CoS, but this is just his conjecture.  He 
even says that nobody really knows what happened at that moment.   
Tom is looking for information too, so he doesn't understand what 
happened, and Dumbledore doesn't confirm Harry's words.  They're 
just left there, as the only explanation offered so far.  But I 
think there was more to it than that, which we'll discover in the 
next two books. (My own time travel theory is in message 76998, if 
you're interested!)  I just don't believe that giving one's life is 
enough to block an AK - there are too many other instances where we 
would have heard of it before.  Why didn't James's sacrifice protect 
Lily, in that case?

Wanda