Why Voldemort is a fascist/sparing Lily

[Jen Reese]

No: HPFGUIDX 109001

> Kneasy: 
> > 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.


> SSSusan:
> Shucks.  That's where I sit, as well.  ANYBODY ELSE have something 
> besides "blood relation," "saving Lily for Snape," or "just a 
choice" 
> which would fit with Voldy's having said--and truly meant--that 
Lily 
> didn't have to die? :-)  
> 
> In other words, I've heard arguments that Voldy simply meant he 
> didn't consider Lily important enough to have to kill or that he 
was 
> lying, just taunting Harry, by reporting he'd said this to her.  
But 
> I mean something which could explain the "why?" if he really HAD 
> considered not killing her.


Jen: I kept Kneasy's quote in here because it was too funny to snip--
thanks for making my day.

OK, you asked for any and all comers Susan--beware! I think 
Voldemort not only didn't look down on Lily as merely a "silly 
girl", but that he was actually *afraid to kill her*. We know 
there's something about Lily, something special signified by her 
eyes, and that is linked to something deeper which LV was aware of 
and chose to ignore in his quest to kill Harry. To his detriment of 
course--isn't that his fallback position, always? "Oh, hell, I'll do 
it anyway." 

Whether he suspected Lily had done some fancy wandwork on her own to 
protect Harry, or he knows something about her origins to make him 
suspect his plan might backfire--whatever it is, LV chose to ignore 
his initial plan *not* to kill Lily. 

I'll repeat myself here (don't we all) that JKR uses Unicorn imagery 
around Lily--pure, innocent, strong--and we know from Book 1 what 
slaying a Unicorn does! Dumbledore said in OOTP that Voldemort *shed 
Lily's blood* which he may have been using metaphorically, but it 
reminds me of Quirrellmort slaying the defenseless unicorn to drink 
its blood--Voldemort slayed the innocent at Godric's Hollow in hopes 
of finally drinking from the cup of immortality, and it cursed him. 

Jen, happy to have another opportunity to delve into that night at 
Godric's Hollow.