[HPforGrownups] Re: "Stand aside, girl" and the End

[simon harris]

No: HPFGUIDX 145794

Julie:     
>> Also, should we perhaps be focusing on why James *had* to die? 
(Kind of like "Why Voldemort didn't die, rather than why Harry 
lived?") Was it simply because James attacked immediately while 
Lily ran to Harry to protect him? Or did LV always intend to kill 
James? Perhaps the answer would help us understand why Lily didn't 
have to die. <<

    
Julie, I think James died because he was in Tom's way.  Tom was 
after Harry and I think anyone in his way would just be 'blasted 
out of the way'.  I do not like to use the films for quotes but I 
can not remember if it is in the books but in the film, PoA, James 
tell Lily to grab Harry and run.  Tom must have known he would 
have to fight James and Lily, they had already on three occasions 
done something to unset or get in the way of Tom. Giving Lily the 
chance to live was possibly a way to make things easier for him 
[Tom] and he would have killed her in the end anyway.
   
  Si