Why didn't Lily have to die?

[arielock2001]

No: HPFGUIDX 93632

Tip Gardner correctly stated about Voldemort's ability to 
manipulate, and thus understand others:
"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?"


Arianna replies:
	I believe that Voldemort did not *ask* Lily to stand aside.  He 
Imperioed her, and she threw it off in the same way that Harry did 
in GOF when FakeMoody performed the curse on him in class. 
She may not have realized that she was doing it, and it probably 
come as a surprise to Voldemort.  

	Why didn't he just kill her...?  Well, there's the Too EWW to be 
TREWW theory, (which is really quite good and does make a lot 
of sense), but maybe it is simpler.  

	The group he created was called "The Death Eaters."  I think that 
every time they killed a wizard, they absorbed some of their 
victim's magical abilities.   This idea is validated by the echoes 
coming out of Voldemort's wand at the end of GOF. We have 
cannon evidence that magical abilities can be transferred from 
one magical person to another.  Dumbledore says many times 
that Voldy transferred some of his powers to Harry when the AK 
backfired (his parseltounge abilities, for example).   Maybe Voldy 
simply didn't want any echo of a muggle-born in his system.  
James' magical essence, that of a powerful pureblood, would be 
welcomed.  A filthy mudblood, on the other hand, well he 
probably just didn't want to dirty his wand.

	Yes, Arthur states in GOF that Death Eaters did kill muggles for 
fun, but there is no evidence that Voldy himself engaged in 
recreational muggle murder.  The murder of his father and 
grandparents was an act of personal revenge.  Also, he didn't 
actually kill muggle-born Moaning Myrtle, he had the basilisk do it 
for him.

	That might be the definition of Dark Arts: the performance of one 
of these spells takes something from its target permanently.

Arianna