[HPforGrownups] Re: JKR interview - Lily and why Harry ends up having to ...

[Janet Anderson]

No: HPFGUIDX 102053

Wanda Sherratt <wsherratt3338 at rogers.com> said:

>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.

I don't think so, for the following reasons:

1) Thanks to Hagrid, Harry has pictures of his parents' wedding.  In those 
pictures, if I recall, Lily is described as "glowing with happiness."

2)  As others have suggested, Lily's dialogue during the Upside-Down-Snape 
scene suggest that she'd been paying attention to him for some time, even if 
she wouldn't admit it, especially to him.

3) I'm not sure, but I think the first prophecy took place while both Lily 
and Alice Longbottom were already pregnant.


Janet Anderson

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