Lily' sacrifice v James' sacrifice WAS: Perfect Lily

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 150110


> 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.
> 
>
Pippin:
James may have had little hope of defeating Voldemort in battle;
nevertheless if he'd won, he'd have saved his own life too. I think 
that may lessen his sacrifice in JKR's eyes, make it less pure. 
Lily did not even have a hope of saving herself.

Pippin