Lily, Dumbledore, and AK

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No: HPFGUIDX 134463

>>Julie writes:
>>Possibility 2: Lily did have to perform some ancient magic for the rebound 
to occur. This >>protecting magic/charm may have been "sealed" by her choosing 
to die by AK. The >>rebound on the caster (LV) was because of the magic, not 
just by her choice. May or >>may not establish a horcrux. (Horcrux being the 
scar because no one else killed by >>AK had a scar...it was surviving the AK 
and being marked by a curse.)

Christina:
Originally, I thought the same thing.  However, in the MuggleNet/LC interview 
of JKR, the following question was asked (they're talking about Lily's 
standing in front of Harry):

MA: Did she know anything about the possible effect of standing in front of 
Harry?
JKR: No - because as I've tried to make clear in the series, it never 
happened before. No one ever survived before. And no one, therefore, knew that could 
happen.

This, in my mind, beats down anything that says that Lily was trying to save 
Harry's life in any magical way.  She stood in front of him because she was a 
desperate mother, not because she had performed a charm to protect him.  I 
personally think this is sort of fishy.  We *know* that Harry is the only person 
to have *ever* survived AK, but if the protection really is due to his 
mother's offering to die to spare him, wouldn't you think that a similar scenario 
would have occurred already at some other point in time?  Is it really reasonable 
for us to believe that Lily is the first mother to ever have looked at a 
killer and said, "Please...take me instead"?

Christina


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