[HPforGrownups] Re: Lily's protection for Harry

[Peggy Wilkins]

No: HPFGUIDX 151813

On 5/2/06, chrusotoxos <chrusokomos at gmail.com> wrote:
> Now, as it has been pointed out, why was Lily important? She certainly
> was useful in some way to LV. Here are my hypothesis:
>
> 1. to report what happened - but as it has been said, not probable.
> 2. to reward someone, or to control someone, or to ransom someone
> 3. for using in magical rites or potions

One way that Lily could be important to Voldemort may have to do with
his own history.  We are given to understand that his mother Merope
simply let herself die shortly after his birth, essentially giving up
on him, as if her were of little significance.  To Merope, her own
child wasn't even worth living for.  If Merope would give up her own
life so easily, why wouldn't Lily give up Harry's to save her own?  If
Lily were like his own mother, she would indeed be a silly girl who
would simply step aside: that is what Voldemort expects of her. 
Certainly he isn't expecting any kind of resistance from a mother,
because his own mother put up none.

Maybe he is testing her.  I don't think he expected her to offer to
die in Harry's place, and was blinded to the power of that offer: he
was simply incapable of seeing it for what it was because it was so
far outside his experience.  He expected her to "step aside".

Lily confronted him with a reality he was blind to; that reality
caused his own curse to backfire on him.

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Peggy Wilkins
enlil65 at gmail.com