GH again (was Re: Why Voldemort Would Have Spared Lily)

[karen_lvssr]

No: HPFGUIDX 112076

Kneasy wrote:

> "Lily, take Harry and go! It's him! Go! Run! I'll hold him off -"
> The sounds of someone stumbling from a room - a door bursting
> open - a cackle of high-pitched laughter -  (PoA chap. 12)
> 
> For whatever reason (lack of time, choice, confusion) she doesn't.
> We've been told by JKR that Harry was in his cot, and again, for
> whatever reason (fear, not having her wand to hand) Lily does not 
> try to fight Voldy. Instead we have:-
> 
> "Not Harry, not Harry, please not Harry!"
> "Stand aside, you silly girl...stand aside now..."
> "Not Harry, please no, take me, kill me instead -"
> .
> .
> "Not Harry!  Please...have mercy....have mercy..."
> (PoA chap. 9)


Karen L, responds:
 
Consider that Harry's cot is upstairs, Lily goes upstairs to get 
Harry and is trapped without her wand. (I imagine that most 
wizards don't carry their wands in their own homes where they 
probably feel safe.)  Many homes in England are similar to the 
one which the Durleys live in.  I imagine that Lily and James 
would have one similar, but smaller.  I don't believe that Lily did 
sacrifice herself thinking that that would spare Harry in the future, 
she sacrificed herself because she didn't want to see her infant 
son murdered.  She had no idea that Harry would survive the 
Curse LV was about to use.