Lily's "ancient magic"(was: Re: Harry'sPowers)

[imamommy at sbcglobal.net]

No: HPFGUIDX 102344

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "vmonte" <vmonte at y...> wrote:
> Sarah wrote:
> I think that they understand that Lily somehow protected Harry, 
but 
> they are not sure of the exact events that led up to it.  I'm 
> guessing that DD knows that Lily saved Harry with an old spell 
> because Snape told him.  How else would he even know that much?  
Does 
> that mean that Snape was there? Or did a painting at the house 
tell 
> DD?     
> 
> vivian - I'm confused even more now...

imaomommy:

I was giving some thought today to why it were even a remote 
possibility that Voldemort would spare Lily, and I kept coming 
around to the idea that he would not kill her because one of his 
supporters wanted her alive.  Snape seems the obvious one, IMO.  Far 
from seeing Voldy as a bleeding heart, I figure he might have had 
ulterior motives in this, too, such as wanting to force her to 
submit to entering his service, or simply making her the spoils of 
war, but I wonder if this event is what changed Snape's allegiance.

Also, does DD say she used a spell?  I thought he said "ancient 
magic", and I never assumed a spell was needed to invoke the 
protection he speaks of.  DD may well have deduced what happened on 
his own, or may have gotten the events from a witness (cough!Snape), 
but I don't think she had to do anything but offer to take Harry's 
place.

I was thinking about things from the new film, too, and wondering 
what bearing the speech Lupin gives, about Lily being there for him 
when noone else was, might have on future development.  The books to 
date never indicate that the two of them were that close, so I 
wonder if that's movie contamination or foreshadowing.

imamommy
who may as well be hanged for a dragon as an egg