Sparing Lily was Re: JKR's FAQ poll -- Neville's potential as prophecy...

[Casey]

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> Kemper:
> It use to bother me that LV was willing to spare Lily, but I've come 
> to believe that he was willing to spare her, wand or no wand, to be 
a 
> mouthpiece to WW and DD that he indeed killed Harry and that he was 
> the most powerful, terrible wizard.  
> I think LV believed that sparing Lily would be more terrorizing than 
> killing her, in the eyes of the WW public, because Lily would have 
> witnessed her son being killed and what a horrible story that would 
> be for the WW.  It's a bit like Dark Public Relations campaign: Live 
> and Fear the Dark Order.

Absolutely. It's like saying the "Mudblood" was beneath notice but 
that Pure Bloods would be punished for mixing with them. James would 
be killed along with his mixed blood child. 

I also think that Voldemort wasn't going to take any chances. Neville 
was next on the list to die, but he got vaporized by Harry before he 
got around to it. 

Casey