Why Voldemort Would Have Spared Lily

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No: HPFGUIDX 111946

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "gelite67" <gelite67 at y...> wrote:
> ---> 
> > Asian_lovr2:
> > 
> > As a matter of fact, I do have a theory, I don't think Voldemort 
> would
> > have spared Lily. 
> 
> Angie replies:
> 
> In the SS, LV tells Harry:  "I killed your father first, and he put 
> up a courageous fight . . . but your mother needn't have died . . . 
> she was trying to protect you."
> 
> This sounds like LV  had no intention of killing her, until she 
> interfered which, of course, sounds very un-Voldemortish to me.  If 
> he planned to kill her, why tell her to stand aside -- why not just 
> zap her, the way he instructed Wormtail to kill Cedric?
> 
> I mean, this was IT for LV.  I don't see why he would hesitate at 
> all.  Killing Harry was much more important than killing Cedric.  Why 
> even waste time to say, "Stand aside."?  By the time he said that, 
> she would have been dead if he had zapped her

Antosha:

I'm pretty sure I've said this here before, but what if heavy duty spells such as AK drain the 
caster? What if LV is worried that, having already used the killing curse on James, he might 
not have the, uh, mojo, or whatever, to finish off his ultimate objective, Harry, if he has to 
expend himself killing Lily?

Although just what LV might want with a living Lily does give me the hebegeebees.