green eyes and the killing curse

[Rebecca Hoskins]

No: HPFGUIDX 79491

Wanda wrote:
> 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?


Well, maybe the protection was not given passively by Lily dying. 
Maybe Lily did some sort of spell or incantation before her death 
that caused this protection to happen. Remember that we are told that 
this is very old magic, so Lily could have looked it up. She would 
have had reason to find some way of protecting Harry, as she knew 
Voldemort was after him because of the prophecy.

"Rebecca Hoskins"