Why would Lily be spared?

[greatelderone]

No: HPFGUIDX 104857

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Eustace_Scrubb" <dk59us at y...> 
wrote:
> Eustace_Scrubb:
> My take on this is that in Voldemort's mind there is no reason for
> anyone to sacrifice their own life to save someone else...I think
> he means Lily could have escaped while James was putting up his
> courageous fight, since Voldemort was after Harry, not her.  She 
could
> have apparated right out of there, without Harry, in Voldemort's
> mind.  

GEO: I do believe he was pointing to the incident when he told her 
to stand aside so that he could AK Harry and instead she refused.

> So I don't think Voldemort was lying when he said this, nor do I 
think
> there was some deal to let Lily live that he reneged on.  He was
> telling the truth, but from a perspective the reader finds horribly
> warped.
> 

GEO: Yet it makes little sense that he actually tried to go around 
her instead of going through her when she was one of Dumbledore's 
followers who had managed to defy him three times thus making her 
his enemy and also a mudblood. For Voldemort to do something like 
that imo is extremely uncharacteristic especially when he had Cedric 
killed just for being in the graveyard.