Why didn't Lily have to die?

[tipgardner]

No: HPFGUIDX 93529

"justcarol67" wrote:

> > > > <<<What *I* don't understand is how he could have thought that
> > >>*any* mother would stand aside and let him kill her baby.>>>

> > Tip points out:
> > Except that the years of of bodiless spirit followed after Lily's
> > sacrifice as a direct result of his work that night.   

Carol ammended: 
> Oops. I must have been thinking of the years of wandering in which
>he was transformed from the handsome boy, Tom Riddle, to the
>snake-faced  Lord Voldemort, seeker of immortality. At any rate, I do
think he had
> lost touch with human psychology, if he was ever familiar with it, or
> he would have understood that, even with her husband presumably dead
> (as Pippin pointed out in another post), a woman will protect her baby.

Tip responds:
Fair enough.  Dumbledore refers to the many dangerous transformations
Riddle undergoes to embody an angry, prideful, POWERFUL young man's
vision of what LV would look like and be.  Those years of wandering,
transforming, etc. might very well have contributed to his lack of
connection with other human beings.

The counter point might be, though, LV's comment (as Riddle at the end
of CoS or when he guides Harry to Hagrid as the perpetrator? - sorry,
I don't have the books with me) that he has always been able to
persuade/charm people when necessary.  One needs to have enough of a
grasp of human psychology to know how to read someone and act
accordingly and that, of course, returns us back to how could LV have
had such a faulty understanding that he thought Lily would step aside
and let him murder her baby boy?

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