The Evil of Voldemort; Lily's choice

[fuzz876i]

No: HPFGUIDX 146773

> Andie <agdisney at m...> wrote:
> > Maybe Voldy wanted to see if all mothers were the same.  
> > His mother, in his eyes, selfishly gave up her life and 
> > left Voldy to the orphanage.  LV expected Lily be selfish 
> > too and to stand aside and save her life.  Instead Lily 
> > did what Merope wouldn't or couldn't, she gave up her life 
> > so she could protect the life of her son and in doing so 
> > brought LV down with her.
> 
> Tonks:
> I don't think that LV's mother "gave" her life. (JKR said 
> that when Lily died for Harry, that no one had ever done that 
> before.) LV's mother just died from the complications of 
> childbirth. <snip> Just because she was a witch doesn't mean 
> that she could beat death. 
>
> This is, of course, what her son tries to do. No doubt his 
> mother's death had an impact on him. Probably a "what if" 
> sort of thing. I am sure that it contributed to his twisted 
> mentality somehow.  But the point here is that Merope didn't 
> "give" her life, she just died.


I agree that the complications of child birth might have killed 
Merope but she chose, in Dumbledore's mind, to stop using magic 
after she got Tom Senior to love her with her love potion.  After 
that she completely gave up the use of magic to survive even going 
as far as selling her family's prize locket.  Horace Slughorn used 
magic to find places to live in his want to be undetected by death 
eaters, so couldn't Merope?  In my opinion she did not want to 
draw attention to the fact that she was a witch.  She chose death 
over life in that she gave up her abilities to do magic to save 
her life and in so doing died in childbirth.   

The case with Lily Potter is that she protected Harry with love 
that allowed the avada kerdava curse to rebound off young Harry 
and return once again to its caster.  If Merope had shown this 
love and used her magic to conjour food then maybe, just maybe, 
we would not have this problem with Lord Voldemort.                                  
                         
                        fuzz876i