LV, James and Lily [was Re: Lily's Family]

[meltowne]

No: HPFGUIDX 108035

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Anastasia" 
<eternal_riddle at y...> wrote:

Anastasia:

I think Lily is the link to Gryffindor, and has a stong magical 
heritage that gives her some special powers, and Harry as well. I 
really like the idea that Voldemort told Lily to 'step aside', not 
because he didn't think she mattered, but because he feared the 
consequences of killing her. Perhaps he knew something about her 
power to indicate killing her might bring some curse down on him. 
He chose to kill her anyway, taking his chances, and obviously not 
realizing Harry has the same power(s).
 
You know, I have also thought about this: James AND Lily have 
escaped LV 3 times. Nevertheless, at Godric's Hollow LV seems not to 
care at all about killing Lily. Why?????
Well, it's natural that he did kill James. James was duelling LV and 
the very best chance to get him out of the way was using Adava 
Kedavra on him. That's clear, especially as James was a serious 
threat.  However, I doubt that LV was *afraid* of killing Lily. I 
think it is more the fact that he didn't consider her as *important*. 
She was muggleborn and seemed to him like... an annoying fly.  

If she really was the heir of Gryffindor, then LV would have to kill 
her so that she couldn't give birth to another child. 
However, if LV didn't want to kill her personally, than the fact 
that she has faced him 3(!) times must be due to her job. What if LV 
needed her for something once he finished with Harry? Couldn't she 
be an Unspeakable LV wanted to get the prophecy or some other 
information from afterwards?

James seems to be a better candidate for a Gryffindor. Already the 
fact that we don't know anything about his backround is suspicious, 
isn't it?

Meltowne:

I think the link to Gryffindor comes through Lily, but LV is not 
aware of it.  He thinks of her as inconsequential because she is 
muggleborn.  We see characters on both sides (wizard & uggle) who 
wish the two sides would keep to themselves, and who think of both 
groups as "us" and "them"  when in reality both groups have been 
intermixed for ages.  If wizarding was based on genetics, that would 
explain the occasional squib child - and mixing of the gene pools 
would explain the muggle-born wizards.  Voldemort thinks full-bloods 
are so much more important (and powerful) than half-bloods, even 
though he is one himself.  Thus he may not even consider that Lily 
could be related to Godric Gryffindor, because maybe sh descended 
from a squib several generations back - one who left the folds of the 
Wizarding World and lived as a muggle, married a myggle, and produced 
muggle children.