Why Voldemort Would Have Spared Lily

[zendemort]

No: HPFGUIDX 111949

> 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.

Zendemort:

Actually, I thought that Voldemort killed Cedric right away because 
he had no use of him, and Cedric could potentially ruine his plan if 
kept alive. It's a lot harder to maintain control over two 
individuals than one. Voldemort wanted to show the DEs that he could 
win over Harry, as well as have his blood. Lily is different. 
Voldemort believed that she posed no real threat and thus, would not 
waste energy on killing her. 
It is rather odd, but maybe Voldemort still has some humanity in his 
heart?