[HPforGrownups] Re: Why didn't Lily have to die?

[Kimberly]

No: HPFGUIDX 93526

(great elderone's comments)
 However the fact that PS/SS and POA told us that she died to protect 
her son and the fact that Rowling said that we'd learn something 
significant about her in Book VII just makes one think that there is 
some significance in those last few moments and that Voldemort might 
indeed have had some reluctance to kill her.

(Kimberly's comments)
I can't even imagine what we could find out about her that would make Voldemort reluctant to kill her.   Clearly being a blood relative won't have mattered because he's already proved that won't even stop him.    I wonder what it could be ?    


(great elderone's comments)
Yet it would have been easier to AK her and then AK Harry. Yet he 
doesn't and instead he tells her to step aside. Why? He's a dark lord 
and a rather ruthless fellow. Telling a mudblood to step aside so he 
could kill her son instead of killing her and then her son is rather 
uncharacteristic of someone like him. 


(Kimberly's comments)
It is quite uncharacteristic but, looking at it from a flip side... in order for Harry to have the protective bond of Lily's sacrifice, she had to die to protect him.   Now, naturally Lily didn't know this and certainly Voldemort didn't but JKR did.    Perhaps she wrote it like that simply to add the element of Lily's sacrifice and the affect of it on Harry as well as the long term affect it could have on the entire plot line.    IMO, that's why Lily had to die in the book.    As to why Voldemort stated it later on, perhaps he was just remarking that it wasn't necessary.     

Kimberly