Why didn't Lily have to die?

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 93467

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "justcarol67" 
<justcarol67 at y...> wrote:
> > Carol:
> > <<<What *I* don't understand is how he could have thought 
that *any* mother would stand aside and let him kill her 
baby.>>>
<snip>
> Yes, I'm very much aware that LV can't comprehend either love 
or emotion in general and I'm familiar with the quotes you cited 
andtheir implications.
<snip more>
> But still, on an intellectual level, he should understand that 
mothers in general will protect their babies. Even the animal 
mothers he must have seen in the wild will fight for their young, if 
not from love then from a natural instinct that he could interpret 
as something mechanical or selfish but nevertheless 
undeniable real. It seems incredibly dense to expect any mother 
to just step aside so he could kill her child, or to see such a 
gesture as "silly."<<

But, as someone pointed out not long ago in the morality 
thread,the mother who will fight to the death to defend her 
young from predators will nonetheless allow them to be killed by 
more dominant members of her own species, a behavior which 
is, unfortunately, also observable among humans.  Having slain 
her mate, Voldemort   expects Lily to submit, not fight.

Pippin