Lilly.

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No: HPFGUIDX 121392


Casey wrote:
"But wouldn't James have found out? Doesn't Polyjuice only last an 
hour? That means that she would have had to wake up during the night
to take it, just in case James woke up to go to the bathroom or
something."

Del replies:
First of, just in case I wasn't clear about it, I was *joking* with
that theory...

About the Polyjuice Potion : one would think that DD would have
noticed something wrong about Crouch!Moody and yet he apparently
didn't. Granted, DD wasn't (to our knowledge) sleeping with
Crouch!Moody, but they were still supposed to be very good friends.

James and Bella!Lily... Maybe they didn't share the same room? That
would be highly unusual, but it's not impossible. Or maybe it was
something else entirely, not PPotion at all? Some kind of
Transfiguration spell, or an experimental potion (Snape, anyone?).

Casey wrote:
"Also, didn't DD say that Lili's love was part of the magic that saved
Harry?"

Del replies:
He could be wrong :-)
Or, as I said, maybe Real!Lily did sacrifice herself for Harry, even
though she wasn't his mother? Wouldn't that make her sacrifice even
bigger in a way, if she sacrificed herself for a baby who was nothing
special to her?

Or maybe Lily *was* Harry's biological mother? Maybe the game LV and
Bella were playing was even trickier than I previously wrote and they
did include Real!Lily (probably under Imperio) in it from time to
time, especially in order to conceive Harry? (either so that Harry
didn't look too much like Bella, or maybe because the hypothetical
Prophecy I  mentioned about James in my previous post also included Lily)

Casey wrote:
"Also, what about the screaming Harry heard, where Lily was screaming
and Voldemort told her to step aside that she didn't have to die. "

Del replies:
Hmm... Let's see... Oooohhh <vbeg>!!
Let's say that over time Lily and LV developed some kind of, er,
intimate relationship. I'm not saying that LV loved Lily, because JKR
said he never loved anyone. But it could be that he had some kind of
attachment to her. As for Lily, maybe she got some kind of Stockholm
syndrome, when hostages or prisoners start sympathesing with their
jailers? So anyway : maybe LV had brought Lily to Godric's Hollow in
order to force, say, Peter to drink some PPotion before killing him,
so he could both get rid of the little rat and keep Lily for himself
forever? But maybe the killing of a baby was more than she could take?
Especially her own baby if she was really his mother?

I'm starting to believe that this theory could actually work, which
would demonstrate once and for all that canon can support even the
craziest theories :-)

Del