Lily being spared/Snape "re-joining" DD

[cubfanbudwoman]

No: HPFGUIDX 104840

Jocelyn wrote:
> > What about this quote:
> > " but your mother needn't have died... she was trying to protect 
> >you"
> > WHAT!
> > WHY would Voldie, terror of the WW, have spared Lily?  Do you 
> > think LV was lying?  It is just such an odd thing to say.


Ally:
> I think that either:
> a)  He was lying and trying to make Harry feel guilty, just like he 
> lied about Hagrid; or
> b) In a twist, some DE (Snape? Pettigrew) made a deal to have Lily 
> spared - along the same lines as Pettigrew getting a new arm - but 
> V didn't follow through with it.
> 
> Someone pointed out - either here or at mugglenet - that DD says at 
> Karkaroff's trial that Snape "RE-joined" their side.  As opposed to 
> just saying he joined their side or he's been a spy for a long 
> time.  This seems to indicate he was for the Order, then against, 
> then for it again.  Maybe he switched sides as a spy when V was at 
> the height of his power, as DD said, but then had a crisis or was 
> lured back to V somehow just before the Potters died.  He made his 
> little pact with V to try to save Lily, was betrayed by V and then 
> returned to DD after the Potters' deaths and provided helpful 
> information against the remaining DES?  

SSSusan:
Yes, as Ally has some, some have postulated that Voldy was planning 
to save Lily for Snape as some kind of reward.  Another possibility 
is that there was some as-yet-unspecified *bond* or *connection* 
between Voldy & Lily.  I formerly thought that perhaps he was related 
to her in some way, but: 1) he doesn't seem to give a flying fig for 
his relatives [witness Dad's execution]; and 2) JKR has already said 
Harry's NOT a descendant of SS, and if Voldy/TR *is*, then Lily could 
hardly be related to him.

So I guess that's a long way of saying...who knows?
 
Siriusly Snapey Susan