Lily and unicorns

[Jen Reese]

No: HPFGUIDX 109157


 Jen: No, I didn't mean my comment upthread literally. As I said in 
> > post 109065, I was comparing a wandless, defenseless Lily at the 
> > moment Voldemort killed her with the unicorn in the forest that 
> was 
> > slayed for its blood. 


Kristen: 
> Do we know for certain from the books that Lily was wandless?  (On 
> re-viewing the movie of SS I was struck how curiously passive she 
is 
> in the flashback.)

Jen: Technically? No :). It's been one of those hotly debated 
topics. All we know from Harry's flashbacks in POA is she's pleading 
with Voldemort not to kill Harry, "Not Harry, not Harry, please not 
Harry...take me, kill me instead--." (US, chap. 9, p. 179).

She just doesn't sound like someone with the wand at the ready, 
prepared to fight with Voldemort. She never makes any defensive 
action (that we hear about anyway). So, speculatively? I think she 
was wandless.