Lily's physical description, and a bit more apparently :-)

[vmonte]

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GEO wrote: I disagree, this is the same person who killed his own 
father
and muggle grandparents with little or no remorse. The reason that
he was less than willing to kill her probably stems from the same
reason that the Potters and Longbottoms survived three encounters
with the Dark Lord as for the actual reason: no one has managed to
formulate a reason that actually makes sense and the old Voldemort
is related to Lily theory has been retread several times.

vmonte responds:

I think that someone warned Voldemort that Lily probably did  
something to protect herself and the baby. This person told Voldemort 
to not attack Lily and to go directly after Harry. Voldemort being 
the arrogant idiot that he is decides that Lily is just a "silly 
girl" after all and disregards the warning. 

This person is probably Snape.

About Harry's eyes and physical appearance:

What if Harry sees/recognizes himself (as a seventeen-year-old 
teenager) in someone elses penseive memory. And what if that memory 
belongs to his mother? He may realize that what he has to do is go 
back to the past to fullfill some role he played there.

When he does go back he will be mistaken for James by the DEs, but 
found out by Snape because he has his mother's eyes. 

Vivian