Lily' sacrifice v James' sacrifice WAS: Perfect Lily

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No: HPFGUIDX 150075

> > 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.
>

Alla:

Welll, yes, I know this reason and cannot wait to find out why Lily 
was valuable to Voldemort. I am sure it will be interesting. :)

But this is not quite what I was getting at and as I said maybe JKR 
was not getting at it either and I simply misunderstood.

I got the impression that Lily sacrifice vs James sacrifice is 
different for JKR not just because of different outcome the ancient 
magic invoked, but that James' sacrifice was some how less 
significant, less conscious, less worthy of respect from the readers 
since James was going to die anyway.

Am I making any sense? IMO at least in theory James could have 
chosen to RUN from Voldemort instead of standing up and fight. I 
mean,sure  we don't know what occurred in GH in great details, but I 
don't think that it is that unlikely that James could have at least 
dissapparated, you know?

He chose to stand up and fight as a hero and if he knew that he is 
going to lose against Voldemort, he in my book chose heroic death in 
order to give his wife and son at least small chance to escape.

Lily also chose to stand up and fight and to die even if she could 
not live.

They both CHOSE to do it, IMO.

I just felt that JKR was diminishing James' actions, putting them 
down in that interview.

Makes sense or not?

Alla