Why would Lily be spared?

[cubfanbudwoman]

No: HPFGUIDX 104869

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.
> 

Eustace:
> > 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.


SSSusan:
RIGHT.  Which is precisely why some of us thought there might be SOME 
kind of bond or connection between Voldy & Lily.  He's certainly in 
canon never showed any interest in giving an enemy a chance to get 
away before, never told someone to stand aside.  (As you noted, he 
killed Cedric just for being there--didn't give him a chance to run 
or send him back to the maze.)  *If* what Voldy was saying was that 
he really WOULD have spared her if she'd stepped aside [and I know 
Eustace doesn't think so, but *if*...], it's truly amazing and does 
make one wonder exactly why he'd do it.

Others have expressed that Voldy just *said* that to Harry in order 
to make him feel worse, but somehow that doesn't ring true....  Like 
you said in your last post, the Evil Lord never lies at the climactic 
moment. :-)

Siriusly Snapey Susan