Why Voldemort Would Have Spared Lily

[huntergreen_3]

No: HPFGUIDX 112108

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.<<

HunterGreen:
I disagree. Her standing there in his way saying 'kill me instead', 
when she knows for a fact that's not going to happen (rather than 
running to get her wand, or trying to stop him physically) seems less 
like a maternal instinct and more like a specific plan to me. They 
knew Voldemort was after Harry, they knew at any moment he could 
somehow get to them, I doubt she would be just leaving her wand out 
of eyeshot in this situation. Remember they had only been in hiding a 
*week* when he found them, not really enough time to get comfortable. 
Fighting would be maternal instinct, standing there weakly trying to 
get the murderer who is there *specifically* for your son to kill 
you "instead" is just silly unless there's a reason behind it. That's 
why I think that Dumbledore knew how Harry survived, it was planned 
beforehand.