Significant Lily?

[catherinemckiernan]

No: HPFGUIDX 92806

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "mooseming" <jo.sturgess at b...> 
wrote:

Jo wrote: 

> Thanks Carol for this link in your post #92778, I've never seen this
> interview before.
> 
> http://www.the-leaky-cauldron.org/quickquotes/articles/1999/1099-
connectiontrans\
> c.html
> 
>  I was intrigued by the following JKR statement:
> 
> "Now the important thing about Harry's mother, the really, really
> significant thing, you're going to find out in 2 parts. You'll find
> out a lot more about her in Book 5, or you'll find out something 
very
> significant about her in Book 5, then you'll find out something
> incredibly important about her in Book 7. But I can't tell you what
> those things are so I'm sorry, but yes, you will find out more about
> her because both of them are very important in what Harry ends up
> having to do."
> 
> What on earth was the significant thing in book 5? How can anything 
we
> learnt about Lily in OotP influence what Harry has to do?

Now me: 

Intriguing indeed! My theory is that we did find out something very 
significant/incredibly important about Lily in book. We learned that 
she was a member of a secret society dedicated to fighting the Dark 
Lord. We learned that she had actively defied him three times and 
lived to tell the tale. We learned that because of this her son was a 
possible subject of a prophecy, which is why Voldemort sought to 
destroy her and she thereby got caught in the crossfire and was 
killed. We learned that she and James were not love's young dream 
from the age of twelve, but that she had a strong personality, and 
was unafraid to speak up in the face of something she believed to be 
wrong (the humiliation of Snape).

That lot seems pretty significant to me! The fact that Harry is 
involved with the Order and the subject of the prophecy which also 
involved Lily is going to be a pretty big influence on what he has to 
do – allegedly to kill Voldemort. But I'm sure there's more, of 
course, we just haven't spotted it.

We also learned (because come on, we have to speculate) that on both 
occasions when Snape sees her (in the Pensieve and in Harry's 
thoughts during Occlumency, when he sees Lily and James and having 
been infinitesimally sympathetic over the dog suddenly become very 
agressive) he loses all his precious self-control and lapses into his 
worst. Fuel for the LOLLIPOPS fire as far as I'm concerned!

Catherine McK