Why Voldemort Would Have Spared Lily

[greatelderone]

No: HPFGUIDX 111966

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Steve" <asian_lovr2 at y...> 
wrote:
> Asian_lovr2:
> 
> As a matter of fact, I do have a theory, I don't think Voldemort 
would
> have spared Lily. I think at that moment, he had his main 
objective in
> sight, and everything else was just a distraction. So, when 
Voldemort
> told Lily to stand aside, he was really say, stand aside I've got 
more
> important things to do than bother with you, rather than saying, 
stand
> aside because you don't /have/ to die. 
> 
> At that point in time, Lily was inconsequential, but she became so
> much of an annoyance and distraction from his real objective that
> Voldemort killed her just to simplify things. 
> 

GEO: Then why did he tell her to stand aside? So far the Voldemort 
we've seen also tries and takes care of the messy details such as 
those standing in front or alongside his target such as in the 
instance of Cedric and probably Lily and James imo. Yet in this 
instance he told her to stand aside instead of just using the 
killing curse on her. 

Second if he was going to kill her anyways, why exactly would it be 
a sacrifice on Lily's part if she was going to die anyways? Most 
sacrifices usually entail you relinquish something of value and I 
hardly see her few more minutes of life after Voldemort kills Harry 
as something to be sacrificed. And why hasn't this sort of love 
sacrifice happened more often. The WW is again a violent world and 
putting children and parents to the wand it seems is a common 
enought practice even during Voldemort's reign and seeing how 
parents being parents wouldn't there have been a more regular 
occurance of such a thing if all it entailed was the parents 
standing in front of their children and protecting them by dying 
first?

And lets not forget if he was going to kill her anyways why was this 
detail repeatedly put in three of the HP books(PS, POA, GOF) and why 
has Rowling herself said that we were going to learn something 
important about Lily in the finale unless.

> Had Lily stepped aside, Voldemort may or may not have killed her on
> his way out based on nothing more than his mood at the moment.

GEO: Why? Aside from being a potential victim, she was one of his 
major enemies in the Order who survived three encounters against him 
and aside from that she was a muggle born which Voldemort seem to 
have a special place in his heart for.

> I also have this theory that Voldemort and the DE's like to leave 
at
> least one person standing to bear witness and tell the chilling
> horrific tale of the mighty Voldemort and his clan of spineless but
> ruthless toadies.

GEO: So far the evidence seems to point out that the DEs guts the 
entire household or at least in the instances of OOTP members. He 
seems to have killed Edgar Bone's family and also the McKinnons it 
seems without leaving survivors.