Lily, Dumbledore, and AK

[saraquel_omphale]

No: HPFGUIDX 134533

> Max responds:
> 
> This has been a "pet peeve" of mine for a number of years. If the
> ancient magic is automatic, then how can Harry be the only one? 
>Lily
> can't possibly be the first person to willingly give their life 
>for a
> loved one in the history of the wizarding world.
> 
> Melissa, in fact, tries to clarify by asking:
> 
> "MA: So no one - Voldemort or anyone using Avada Kedavra - ever 
gave
> someone a choice and then they took that option [to die] -
> 
> JKR: They may have been given a choice, but not in that particular 
way."
<snip>
> If it's not a charm placed on Harry by Lily, then what might it 
be? What
> does JKR mean by "that particular way"?

I took it to mean that no-one has sacrificed themselves for someone 
who is the oject of a Horcrux attempt.  DD says to Harry (UK Ed 
p473, ch23) "I am sure that he was intending to make his final 
Horcrux with your death.  As we know, he failed."  Which implies to 
me that the curse which he used to try and kill Harry was somehow 
more than a straightforward AK curse, it also had something else 
bound into it that was designed to create the Horcrux.

Saraquel