Lily's love (was Re: My predictions in April 2003)

[greatelderone]

No: HPFGUIDX 127183


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "lebeto033" <lebeto033 at y...> 
wrote:
 
> I always thought that the love answer was sort of a cop out on
> Dumbledore's part.  I doubt that Lily was the only mother who died
> before her child that loved her child.  If her love was the only
> variable then she was either more powerful than anyone else or 
> loved Harry more than any other mother/child.  

GEO: I agree, it wasn't just Lily's sacrificial and maternal love 
that allowed Harry to survive the AK curse from Voldemort since as 
you yourself said this kind of situation is probably all too 
common , but possibly also the fact that Voldemort was actually 
willing to spare Lily and that she still sacrificed herself for her 
son despite the fact that she could have survived was why the 
maternal protection was activated as glimpsed in the flashbacks in 
PoA and the finale scene in PS/SS. 

That's why I assume 
> that Dumbledore was keeping secrets and assumed Harry wasn't 
mature 
> enough to handle all the information.  

GEO: Or perhaps more likely DD doesn't know the entire mechanism for 
the maternal protection. Remember of the wizards well versed in 
magic only Voldemort was there as witness and victim to the 
protection.