Why Voldemort Would Have Spared Lily

[hannahmarder]

No: HPFGUIDX 111955

Asian_lovr2:
> > 
> > As a matter of fact, I do have a theory, I don't think Voldemort 
> would
> > have spared Lily. 
> 
I think he would have spared her if he could.  When Harry hears the 
last moments of his parents lives in PoA he hears LV say 'stand 
aside, you silly girl.'  If he was going to kill her anyway, why not 
do it then and save the trouble of having her still trying to stop 
him getting at Harry?  I think LV's reluctance to kill Lily is 
related to some significant future plot point.  We know from 
interviews with JKR that something significant is revealed about 
Lily in later books, and even without that, there are a lot of 
mysteries surrounding her.  How could someone so young (by some 
timeline calculations, only 21 at the time of her death, which I 
don't personally agree with, but she certainly was very young 
nonetheless) have defied Voldemort all those times?  And why do 
people never tell Harry anything about her?  We hear a lot about 
James, but all they ever say about Lily is that she was nice.  We 
can assume that Hagrid, Dumbledore, Sirius and Lupin all knew her 
pretty well, even if James was their 'main' friend.  And doesn't she 
have any friends of her own?  There's something about Lily that we 
don't know and may not even be able to guess, but that's why LV 
didn't want to kill her.  (No, I don't think she was his daughter/ 
grandaughter/ lover.)