Lily and the SK Switch (Was: Re: How Sirius' death suits Dumbledore?)

[nrenka]

No: HPFGUIDX 130611

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Magda Grantwich 
<mgrantwich at y...> wrote:

>> Alla:
>> One more thing, about Sirius coming up with brilliant plan, which 
>> cost Lily and James their lives. I am sure that was raised before 
>> but from what little I know about Lily so far, I don't consider her
>> to be stupid, rash or impulsive and she seemed to agree to that 
>> plan. Maybe there were some merits to it after all.
> 
> What merits, precisely?  Twelve dead muggles might disagree with 
> that assessment.  Lily wouldn't be the first wife who'd gone along 
> with her husband's views.

The original merits would have been avoiding the obvious (Sirius) and 
thus (hopefully) gaining some more security in what were apparently 
very difficult times.  Of course it goes badly wrong, but James and 
Lily agree to doing it, with three parties being fooled badly by the 
fourth.  We don't know anything more about the scenario.

What I think Alla is trying to express is that from what little we 
know of Lily, she's been presented as a sharp, daring (testing the 
limits of the Statue of Secrecy, per interview; not to mention the 
unknown 'defying him three times') and independent-minded character.  
I can't see her rolling over and just acquiescing to something that 
she didn't like.  A little more likely to say "I don't like your 
plan.  It sucks." if she felt that it did.  It is possible that there 
was a big argument and she was against it but went along with it 
anyways--we're clearly in the realm of the hypothetical.

I don't see it as fitting what we know of her personality, though.  
And I certainly don't see James as able to bully or argue her into 
submission, or Sirius as being so eloquent and charming as to 
persuade her--if she didn't agree.  YMMV.  This may well be answered 
in a month or so.

-Nora gets back to more fun with Mr. Bartok