LV's survival [HPforGrownups] (quote taken from GH again (was Re: Why Voldemort Would Have Spared Lily))

[Anita Hillin]

No: HPFGUIDX 112055



arrowsmithbt <arrowsmithbt at btconnect.com> wrote, using the quote on another topic:
Why didn't Lily run, why didn't Lily fight?

All sorts of ideas here. There's the "ancient magic" protective spell which won't work *unless* Lily dies, of course. [snip] No, it could be that she's forcing Voldy's hand.  As a final act of defiance she's tricking Voldy into triggering the protective spell. Harry will now be safe. 

James died because he fought. Lily could have done the same but didn't. It just might be that fighting is not enough; a totally unambiguous sacrifice is needed to trigger the spell - unarmed, unresisting, voluntary. 

[more snips, then Kneasy goes on to quote canon from OOTP]:


"And so I made my decision. You would be protected by an ancient magic of which *he knows, which he despises,* [akh emphasis]and which he has always, therefore, underestimated -  to  his cost. I am speaking, of course, of the fact that your mother died to save you." 


akh: This triggered the synapses, connecting JKR's comment at the Edinburgh appearance, where she said we should be asking why Voldemort didn't die at GH.  Perhaps DD is saying LV knows about this specific magic; in other words, his mother deliberately did not save her own life, thereby saving her son's.  LV may have a version of the same "ancient magic," and his mother's sacrifice is what has kept him alive.  Because of his experience in the orphanage and his more negative nature coupled with what must be an enormous ego (I believe in nature+nurture+choices, but we'll save that for another time), he doesn't see his mother's sacrifice as noble.

I've just tossed this off, so arguments/disagreements are welcome for me to solidify this idea further.

 

akh, who apologizes if this is not new; just came back from a funeral of a friend who died too young ;-(


		
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