Significant Lily?

Jen Reese stevejjen at earthlink.net
Fri Mar 12 15:57:33 UTC 2004


No: HPFGUIDX 92820

Catherine: 
> 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).


Jen: Lily's character development was so important because we 
finally see her as a *person* and not just as a mother. We find out 
that she was a very powerful witch, one who made James and Sirius 
take notice when she pointed her wand at them and they "eyed it 
warily"--not a person to be trifled with!

So we did find out "a lot more about her in Book 5". But JKR then 
goes on to say we will find out "something very significant about 
her in Book 5". I think those are two different points.

In a thread this sunmmer, Richelle noted that in the Pensieve scene 
we find out Lily's eyes are almond-shaped. Since we already know her 
eyes are important, this was some additional information. The only 
other character that has almond-shaped eyes is the sphinx in GOF. 
Coincidence, red herring? I don't think so, because the BIG thing 
we're going to find out about in Book 7 is the Harry/Lily eye 
connection, so the shape is another clue. 

It just seems like the significance of the eyes has to be a power 
Lily and Harry possess that is beyond the normal witch/wizard's 
powers. 

Here's the thread if anyone is interested:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/message/75287

Jen Reese






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