Lilly.

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 121540


Valky wrote:
> Personally, I believe the revelation about Lily, in Book 7 will be 
> related to the meaning of her green eyes.  I think we will discover 
> that they are a sort of divine genetic inheritance.

Carpl responds:
Although I think we'll find out something about the green eyes, which
seem to run in Lily's family *perhaps* indicating that she had some
distant wizard ancestors (if we can take the Mirror of Erised as
showing actual family members and disregard the narrator's Harry-based
classification of them all as "Potters"), I don't think it's the eyes
that will prove important. I think it will be Lily's skill with
Charms, as suggested by Ollivander's description of her first wand in
SS/PS. (Remember that James's wand was described as "excellent for
Transfiguration" and we found out in PoA that he's an Animagus. Lily's
is described as a "nice wand for Charm work.")

I think that Lily placed the Fidelius Charm on PP and, much more
important, placed some sort of protective charm on Baby Harry that was
activated by her sacrifice. I think it was her protective charm rather
than her sacrifice alone (surely she's not the first or the last
mother to die for her child; Barty Jr.'s mother did the same for him
with much different results) that saved him, but it wouldn't have
worked if she hadn't died first, which explains her desperate pleas to
kill her rather than Harry.

IMO, the (activated) charm blocked the AK, producing the lightning-
shaped scar, which vaguely resembles the eihwaz rune (defense or
protection). (Why bring that particular rune up in realation to
Hermione's Ancient Runes exam if it isn't going to be important? I
predict that in HBP, hermione will connect the shape of the scar to
the shape of the rune, leading eventually to the deduction that Lily
placed a protective charm on Harry. Especially if he mentions the term
"ancient magic" and she starts researching the topic.) 

BTW, I know that JKR has said that the shape of the scar isn't the
most important thing about it. That doesn't mean that the shape isn't
important at all.

Carol, who has raised this idea several times before but finds it much
easier to repeat it than to search for earlier posts using Yahoo!mort