JKR interview - Lily and why Harry ends up having to ...

[Krystol Berry]

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Pixieberry:  
That would be That Hideous Strength (third in the Out of the Silent Planet series).  Just finished it last night.  :)

Wanda wrote:
I have a vague memory of one of C.S. Lewis's science fiction books 
(someone can tell me which one it is - it involves Merlin travelling 
in time to the present day).  There's a married couple in it, and 
though they don't know it, they are destined to produce a child who 
is to save the world.  Only they're not very happy, and the wife has 
refused to have children, with the result that the moment to 
conceive this child has passed, and the moment is gone forever.  
When right after "Snape's Worst Memory," Harry is thinking over how 
his mother seemed to hate his father, he wonders if James somehow 
forced Lily into marriage.  Maybe there's something to that: perhaps 
theirs wasn't a love-match, but more of a political marriage, to 
produce this miracle child who would fulfill prophecies and defeat 
Voldemort.  It's a bit of a dicey subject for kids to read, though - 
almost like selective mating, but if Rowling wants to push the 
envelope in literature, this would be one way!



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