Significant Lily?

[justcarol67]

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Catherine McK:
<snip> 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. <snip>

I think "caught in the crossfire" is not quite what happened. She
deliberately stepped into the line of fire ("Kill me instead!"). I'm
quite sure that there's more to Harry's survival at Godric's Hollow
than his mother's love or even her self-sacrifice. The "ancient magic"
LV mentioned in GoF could not be activated unless Lily died, but I
don't the death alone was enough to activate it. I think we're being
prepared for additional information about the scar and its relation to
a protective charm that Lily placed on Harry. JKR recently spoke of
LV's and Harry's mutual survival in that incident as the "central and
crucial question," so it will almost certainly determine how Harry
conducts his final battle or confrontation with Voldemort.

The passage serves other purposes as well as this primary one. The
Snape connection (snipped that part of your post--sorry) will, I
think, be important, but (with apologies to Severus) I don't think
it's as important as the charm itself. And another small or not so
small thing that relates to Book 6 rather than Book 7--We're told
repeatedly in OoP that her last name is Evans, and we also hear about
a certain ten-year-old named Mark Evans, whose name (IMO!) can't be a
coincidence. Last but not least, we finally see Lily as a person and
not just a face in a mirror or photo album or a voice in a memory. But
I think the big part she'll play in Book 7 relates to the protective
charm. If anyone wants links to the thread that discusses that
possiblility, please try the Search engine for this group. If you
can't find it and are really interested in this topic, I'll hunt up
the initial post. (The theory isn't mine, but I like it.)

Carol