Why not kill Lily?

ginny343 ginny343 at yahoo.com
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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