Why Voldemort Would Have Spared Lily

[mcdee1980]

No: HPFGUIDX 112054


> > mcmaxslb:
> > > Voldemort was lying to mess with Harry's head. He had no 
> > > intention of letting Lily live.
> 
> > SSSusan:
> > I'm inclined to think it *wasn't* Voldy just being cruel & 
> > messing w/ Harry's mind, but that there really was a reason that
> > Voldythingy would have been willing to spare Lily.  
> 
> cybiloliver:
> I don't think LV would have let her live just on the fact that she 
> was a mud-blood.


(I'm sorry I haven't posted in awhile, but I've been busy getting 
ready for school to start again, now it has and I have even less time)

Ahhh.  I can't believe I didn't see this before.  I'm sorry if this 
is a repeated idea, but it seems to me that LV has a very good reason 
indeed for keeping Lily alive.  The prophesy makes both Lily and 
James very special.  He probably would have liked to keep both of 
them alive, but James was able to fight and is lost.  Lily and James 
are the parents of a child who has the capability to kill LV.  That 
fact alone makes them important and probably of interest to LV.  They 
have proven themselves three times in facing LV.  If you were LV 
wouldn't you want to know what was so special about those two people 
before you killed them?  Moreover wouldn't you want them fighting for 
your side.  We know that LV tricked, cursed, and generally used 
devious methods for recruiting methods.  Why not recruit two of the 
most powerful people on the other side?  

Additionally, and a seperate track on this theory, we've seen the 
skills of the various people who have been recruited: politicians, 
potion masters, spys, duelists.  There is no mention of someone 
particularly skilled at charms.  Perhaps LV needed her or someone of 
her skill level to complete his quest for immortality.

Lady McBeth