What saved Harry?

Bart Lidofsky bartl at sprynet.com
Thu Nov 10 21:38:16 UTC 2005


No: HPFGUIDX 142820

mercurybluesmng wrote:
> Lily was not a threat. Lily was a minor nuisance. Very minor. Like an 
> ant on your picnic blanket. You might squash it if you felt like it, 
> but you're just as likely to flick it back into the grass. Or else 
> Voldemort just wanted to torment her by killing her son in front of her.

Bart:
Or, to repeat my own theory, Voldemort was promising her to Snape as a 
reward for his service, making her more valuable alive than dead. There 
have been numerous implications in the book that if Prof. Snape is not 
the world's greatest expert on potions, he's way up there.

	Bart








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