Why didn't Lily run? (Was: James, a paragon of virtue?)

[Tammy]

No: HPFGUIDX 123728


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "justcarol67" <justcarol67 at y...>
wrote:
> 
> Ces wrote:> 
> > I get the impression that Voldemort just walked in and AK'd James - 
> > that he never got the chance to fight.  Couldn't Lily have flooed 
> > somewhere with Harry?  It just seems to me that there weren't enough 
> > precautions taken.
> 
> 
> Carol responds:
> As Valky points out in another post in this thread, Voldemort himself
> says that James put up a courageous fight. She quotes SS/PS. I had
> thought there was a similar comment in the graveyard scene in GoF
> along the lines of, "Your father fought bravely, but your mother
> didn't have to die." This quote has led to speculation that Voldemort
> was actually willing, or even intending, to spare Lily. I don't see it
> that way; I think he just wanted her to get out of the way, and since
> she was unarmed, unlike James, he had no reason to fight her.
> 

> Carol, who hopes someone else will find that quote, which I could have
> sworn was in GoF

Tammy:

The only quote like you described that I could find was this one from
PS/SS, the same one Valky quoted:
"I killed your father first, and he put up a courageous fight... but
your mother needn't have died... she was trying to protect you..."

I think that adequately illustrates your point. I agree that Lily may
have known something about the ancient magic that would protect Harry
through her sacrifice, otherwise why not just take Harry and run? Why
stay and die, leaving your child alone and defenseless? Voldemort
seems to be saying that he wouldn't have harmed her, but what mother
would have walked away from her child?