Why spare Lily?

[littleleahstill]

No: HPFGUIDX 105033

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.

Leah:

I don't think he was lying- in fact he can't be because the fact that 
Lily made a willing sacrifice for her son as opposed to being a 
Cedric like victim of circumstances appears to be the crux of Harry's 
protection.

I like the Shape-trophy theory that has been proposed, but since 
Voldemort originally seems to be keeping his side of this possible 
bargain by telling Lily to step aside, why doesn't he just use 
Stupefy or some similar spell to render her temporarily inactive?

Has Voldemort being forewarned by someone unknown that attacking Lily 
might be a dangerous thing to do?

Or is he in a hurry?  The impression I get whenever we get snippets 
of whatever went down  at Godric's Hollow is that Voldemort was 
rushed- hence the impatient 'stand aside'. Why? Did he have to get to 
Harry before midnight on 31 October, (possibly the anniversary of 
Harry's conception) and if so, why?  Did he have to get to both Harry 
and then Neville on the same day?

Against that theory is the fact that it took only a second to AK 
Cedric. My only other thought, for which I apologise in advance, is 
that some sort of time turning was going on, and that Voldemort had 
arrived in Godric's Hollow from some future in which Lily still 
existed, and that the serious messing with time resulting from her 
death on 31 October had something to do with the vapourising of 
Voldemort.

Leah (preparing to duck)