Why not kill Lily?
ginny343
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Fri Nov 11 21:38:06 UTC 2005
No: HPFGUIDX 142887
--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "colebiancardi" <muellem at b...>
wrote:
>
> Maybe the reason why Voldemort stated to Harry that Lily need not
> have died is simple - he didn't need her death.
I don't know how many people LV has killed, but he has had armies of
Inferi . . . He has already gone so far into evil, why would he care
how many people he kills? Why would he even pause to consider not
killing her?
>
> Also, LV is a liar to boot. Perhaps he was
> lying. And Rowling is just throwing us nothing but a chicken
bone :)
>
I assumed this too, until recently rereading PoA. When Harry is
first practicing the patronus he hears this as a memory from the
night his parents died:
"Not Harry! Not Harry! Please -- I'll do anything --"
"Stand aside. Stand aside, girl!"
So LV was not lying. He told her to move. He wasted valuable
seconds of his life asking a witch he had no respect for to move.
Why?
Ginny343
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