Why Voldemort Would Have Spared Lily

[karen_lvssr]

No: HPFGUIDX 112080


> Hannah:
> >> why does Lily stand there and plead? Why doesn't she try 
> >> using her wand? 

HunterGreen:
> She pleads instead of using her wand because she *wanted* him to 
> kill her. Even if she managed an expelliarmus or something else, 
> he probably would have still won, or would have escaped and come 
> back another time. I doubt she would have got the chance anyway. 
> IMO, the only reason he hesitating in killing her is the fact 
> that she was standing there without a wand posing no threat. I 
> think the ancient magic thing was something she knew about and 
> something she had planned as a last-resort. 


Karen L.,
I'm sorry, but I feel everyone is putting more into this than is 
necessary.  Are there no parents in this group?  Imagine if you 
will a wizard family sitting in their Living Room watching TV or 
whatever, and the Dark Wizard, LV smashes through your front 
door.  The husband jumps up to defend his family, telling the 
wife to go get the child (Harry) and run.  Now suppose that the 
house is a two story and the child is upstairs, asleep in his "cot".  
The mother/wife runs upstairs, followed by the dark wizard and 
gets trapped in the child's room.  (she has no wand, because 
being in her own home she feels safe enough not to carry one.)  
She pleads with said Dark wizard for the life of her son, not 
wanting to see her child murdered in front of her, and ends up 
sacrificing herself.  There is not enough time to really think, 
hmmm, if I sacrifice myself for my child, then he will be protected 
from this dark wizard.  I firmly believe the entire episode is pure 
maternal instinct on Lily's part.