His Mother's Eyes

[Tonks]

No: HPFGUIDX 128538

His mother's eyes.  They are green and maybe that is important, 
maybe not.  There is something about Harry.  We have seen it for a 
long time now.  He sees things differently. For one he is near 
sighted.  Now what might that mean metaphorically?  

We will need to learn more about Lily and I am sure that we will in 
book 6.  It will be very important for us to understand what type of 
person she was.  We already know a few things.   She was a person of 
compassion.  She showed that when she defended Snape who was 
probably not a very popular or very nice person even then.  She was 
a person of great courage, and the greatest form of Love.   Even 
more than that, she must have been a person of great faith.  By that 
I mean faith in the working of the charm that was placed on Harry.  
Otherwise her baby son would, after her death, have been left to be 
tortured and killed by the most evil of men.  What mother would 
allow that?  She did not attempt to kill LV herself.  Think about 
what that means.  Most mothers would have tried to do some damage to 
the person threatening their child, but Lily did not do that.  She 
did not resist.  As a person she was compassionate, courageous, 
loving and trusting in the ancient magic.  Perhaps she was a person 
of peace and non-violence, like Gandhi.  With a name like Lily, what 
else could she have been? 

Harry has her eyes.  Harry has the eyes of compassion.  He allows 
Wormtail to go free.  Sure he explains it by saying that his father 
would not have wanted Sirius and Lupin to become murderers.  Let us 
think about that for a moment.  If Harry has that feeling for his 
father's wishes and the ability to see people the way his mother 
does, Harry will not kill LV.  I don't know if Harry will see Tom in 
any way that would cause Harry to have the compassion that his 
mother had for Snape, but there is something to ponder there.  Some 
time ago someone on this list suggested that Lily had compassion on 
Tom Riddle that night and did not want to destroy him and that is 
was her compassion on Tom that saved Tom.  I don't know about that, 
but thought I would just remind people that someone suggested that.  
Perhaps if we can put our heads together and ponder all of these 
points we may as a group come up with the answer. 

I think that something very great, very profound is going to happen 
in the end of the series. JKR doesn't think that anyone will figure 
it out, so it must be a real kicker.   Exactly what, I am not sure.  
Perhaps it does have something to do with Lilies eyes.