Perfect Lily (Re: But DID James listen?)

[Renee]

No: HPFGUIDX 150073

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "dumbledore11214"
<dumbledore11214 at ...> wrote:
>
 
> Alla:
> 
 
> But  the thing that I find the most bothersome in as you said 
> Sherry " bad father/holly mother" cliche is JKR differentiating 
> between James's sacrifice and Lily's sacrifice in her July 2005 
> interview.
> 
> I mean, really, father's sacrifice for his child and wife somehow 
> counts less than mother's sacrifice? Why is that? Now, maybe I 
> misunderstood that part of JKR's interview, but I have not bothered 
> to reread that part since it left a very unpleasant  feeling in me.
> 
> 
Renee:
IIRC, the difference was that Lily was given the choice to live. James
would have died anyway, but not Lily, if she'd been prepared to stand
aside and let Voldemort kill Harry. Unlike James's death, hers was not
inevitable, and that's why it saved Harry.