Why Voldemort Would Have Spared Lily

[greatelderone]

No: HPFGUIDX 111968

--- 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. 

GEO: First this is the same Voldemort that clears away such messy 
details such as people standing alongside or in front of his targets 
by killing them. Remember in GoF, he killed Cedric for just being in 
the wrong place at the wrong time. 

- Why would it have been a sacrifice on Lily's part if Voldemort was 
going to kill her anyways. Sacrifices usually entail that something 
of value is relinquished yet I very much doubt Lily's few remaining 
minutes of life would have worked. Second if it did then why hasn't 
something like this been more common. The WW is a violent place and 
even during Voldemort's reign, they put parents and children to the 
wand. Yet parents being the parents they're and seeing how the 
protection is activated just by sacrificing ones life or offering 
ones life in forfeit why hasn't it occured more often unless this 
isn't the proper mechanism for sacrificial charm.  


> 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: And he wouldn't have spared her. Mercy and pity seems to be 
things that he has little use for plus the fact that Lily was one of 
the OOTP and one of the four that had managed to defy him 3times. 
Plus lets not forget that she was a muggle born which the DEs and 
Voldemort held a special place in their 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: Yet in previous instances with OOTP families, he seemed to have 
had the whole family put to the wand. Afterall we don't hear about 
members of Edgar Bone's family or any of the McKinnons surviving 
that night. All we hear are the whole family being killed.