Why Voldemort is a fascist/sparing Lily

[boyd_smythe]

No: HPFGUIDX 108971

> Kneasy wrote <much snippage>: 
> > Lily has defied him 3 times we're told. For a murdering ideologue 
> > this would be unforgivable and would merit the ultimate sanction.
> > But Voldy isn't thinking along those lines - he wants to kill 
Harry,
> > that seems to be his sole aim. James possibly and Lily for sure 
> > need not have died. But if they get in the way then die they will.
> > That is a very cold pragmatic way of assessing the 'mission' - 
that
> > it's a safeguard for his future security, not an aspect or 
> > reflection of a wider political agenda. 

> Then SSSusan wrote:
> <snip> While I'm 
> convinced that Voldy had a *reason* for suggesting she didn't have 
to 
> die--that he really did *mean* it when he said it--I can't come up 
> with much in the way of WHY, beyond the rather tired ideas of his 
> somehow being related to Lily or having promised to try to spare her 
> for someone else, i.e., Severus. 

boyd:

I hope this doesn't come across as pedantic, but my assumption was 
that JKR simply needed Lily's death to be a sacrifice for Harry. To 
make that clear to us, the readers, she wrote those troubling words of 
LV's to Lily.

So does LV say she doesn't have to die because a) he's a powerhungry 
ductator-to-be who just needs to off Harry, or b) Lily's life has some 
importance to him?

I choose c) because JKR made him say it. This is just one of those 
areas where JKR was expedient.

Of course, there's always d) LV *couldn't* kill Lily due to some sort 
of protection that *she* had and relinquished to save Harry....

--boyd
there is no e) because it's too early in the morning for LV/Petunia 
shipping