Why Voldemort is a fascist/sparing Lily

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No: HPFGUIDX 108991

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "cubfanbudwoman" <susiequsie23 at s...> > 

> It was in your discussion of the first point that I was hoping you'd 
> be able to give me some hypothesis/es.  Since I don't think up things 
> on my own very well, I was hoping for ideas, you see.  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. 
> 

Hells teeth! You  want jam on it, you do.

It's all very flattering to be thought capable of producing theories
at the drop of a hat, if that's what you're asking. But there's nothing
very startling springing to mind.

Yeah, I never went for that Snape dragging a resisting  Lily down
to his dungeon, chortling and drooling while envisioning practicing 
some superior wand-work through the long night either.

Nor the 'blood relation' hypothesis.

It could be an example of a DD-type choice - and Voldy chose wrongly
thus setting up the protection. Or a way of setting up the 'magical 
contract' theory that I mentioned in the 'Shared Thoughts' post.

Dunno. I brood on that scene - something's not right. There should be
two green flashes for a start. Nope. Can't help, I'm afraid.
I'm not certain of anything except that  JKR's hiding something. 

Kneasy