Why Lily, Not James? + prophecy-translation (WAS: Re: Why James, Not Lily?)

[Cindy]

No: HPFGUIDX 135838

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "nobodysrib" <nobodysrib at y...> 
wrote:
> We've been led to believe there is a large secret regarding Lily
 
and
> we wonder why Voldemort would give Lily the chance to step aside
> before killing her
 and then there's that unknown horcrux

> 
> [And, I recall a JKR interview in which she overtly discusses Harry
> having Lily's eyes, and she laughs that she is giving away far too
> much.  (I've been searching for the exact text; no luck thus far. 
> Anyone remember where it is?)]
> 
> This gets my thoughts a-tumbling in a myriad directions.  Could 
Lily
> be a GG descendent, thus a worthy candidate for LV to turn into a
> horcrux?  Horcrux!Lily??  Could this explain why he gives Lily the
> option to live -- to preserve one of his horcruxes?  Yet, when she
> does not step aside, he weighs his options. (`Tis better to kill 
the
> Prophecy Boy and lose one or many horcruxes than to lose this
> opportunity to kill Harry.)  
> 
> No one else has made more than one horcrux, so perhaps the inner
> workings of horcruxes are not well known.  Plus, we already know 
that
> Lily's motherly love saved Harry's life -- a repercussion Voldemort
> did not foresee.  So, perhaps

> 
> Lily knows she's a horcrux and figures out a way to transfer this 
to
> Harry; Lily's dying to save Harry transfers part of the horcrux to
> Harry (via Old Magic, not via a witch or wizard`s spell); or
> Voldemort`s creating-a-horcrux spell was cast on Lily but the words
> used specified a GG descendent (thus easing the Lily-to-Harry
> transfer, or perhaps *causing* it when Harry was born and another 
GG
> descendent was created).  The literal transference: eyes.  
Regardless
> of scenario, Lily's eyes, part of the horcrux, are transferred to
> Harry.  And now Harry literally has his mothers' eyes.  
> 

Hooboy, that is just so freaky.  All these references to Harry 
having his mother's eyes, and JKR has quite a wicked sense of humor. 
Lily's eyes are a horcrux that got transfered to Harry?  Just the 
thought of Harry having to give up his sight to destroy Voldemort is 
creepy.  But then, an embryonic Voldemort being lowered into a 
cauldron containing his servant's hand, Harry's fresh blood and the 
murdered remains of his father show that JKR can push the creepy 
level comfort zone to the max. Anything's possible I suppose.  Euu.