The Evil of Voldemort; Lily's choice

dumbledore11214 dumbledore11214 at yahoo.com
Thu Jan 19 22:13:41 UTC 2006


No: HPFGUIDX 146729

> Alla responded:
<snip> 
> > She answered directly IMO - Voldemort WAS about to let Lily live. 
> What is the reason, we don't know, of course, BUT such reason exists
> IMO. <snip>
> 
> Carol answers:
<SNIP>
> So, no, JKR isn't lying. She just (IMO) doesn't want to explain
> straight out that LV had no particular motive in letting Lily live.

Alla:

I see what you are saying, but I disagree. I absolutely don't see 
Voldemort leaving one of his victims alive for no reasons at all. Of 
course, JMO.
Imagine the following RL analogy, which is of course rather loose, 
but all of RL analogies are IMO. Hired killer comes to the house to 
kill one member of the family. Do you see him leaving alive other 
members who turned out to be home by accident or something? If 
nothing else, why would he leave witnesses alive? No, I think that 
VERY particular reason existed why Lily could have been alive.

Carol:
> (Notice that JKR does beat about the bush in the interview; maybe 
she
> wants us to think there's more to it than there is. After all, some
> people speculate that Snape loved Lily and she wants to keep that
> avenue open. I, for one, don't think Snape's being DDM! depends on
> Lily, either.)

Alla:

Sorry, but to me she hints rather strongly that  the reason why Lily 
could have been alive is important.

Carol:
<SNIP>
> Can you give me any *canonical* evidence (outside the interviews) 
that
> LV saw Lily as anything more than a "silly girl" or Harry's "Muggle
> mother"? Yes, I know that the Prophecy states that the *parents* had
> "thrice defied him" and he knew that Lily was a member of the Order 
of
> the Phoenix, whose members the DE's were picking off one by one. 

Alla:

Sure, to the best of my knowledge we don't have canonical evidence 
that Voldemort had specific interest in Lily except interview, but I 
believe the interviews - I believe that JKR was hinting the 
importance here. I think we will discover  the reason in book 7, BUT 
it is actually irrelevant whether Voldemort specifically cared for 
Lily or not IF the reason for her to live was to be the reward for 
Snape or Peter ( Ewwwww in both instances). All that is necessary IMO 
is that Voldemort should care for Snape as in "value him" as the 
valuable  member of his forces and willing to endulge his request.

Now, if Jen's theory is correct - that Voldemort wanted specific 
information from Lily - THEN sure we will have to know about it in 
the last book and maybe we will.

The bottom line is I just don't see Voldemort leaving Lily alive 
because he did not care enough to kill her. Even if he did not take 
her seriously as battle opponent, she could have call for help or 
something like that. Leaving a witness to the murder alive, leaving 
a  mother alive with desire to avenge her sons and husbands deaths? I 
strongly doubt it.

JMO,

Alla








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