Lily's protection for Harry

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No: HPFGUIDX 151815

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Peggy Wilkins" <enlil65 at ...> wrote:

>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.
> 

I like this reasoning; DD has always said that, as LV doesn't
understand love, he underestimates it. But I still think there is
something special about Lily, and that LV wouldn't have minded to keep
her alive. Also, there's teh problem of why she was unarmed. Sounds
like stupid, and the Potters certainly were not. Where was her wand?
Ollivander mentioned it, remember? Ollivander the creepy guy, a little
racist on the side, remembers Lily Evans the Muggleborn and, moreover,
it is her eyes that he immediately sees in Harry's face, and not
James' face, who was identical to Harry's. Flitwick remembers her well
too, and Slughorn says she was brilliant, more, that she was
"special". What could have happened to find this brilliant, clever,
powerfully magic and special girl alone and defenceless to meet LV?

And I still disagree on James' death. I don't think LV killed him to
get him out of the way, because Jmaes was fighting, because he was
dangerous in that preicse moment. JKR said "he died trying to protect
his family but he was going to be murdered anyway". Doesn't that mean
that LV wanted to kill him in the first place, that he went to
Godric's Hollow that night with 2 targets in his head?

Pfff...I'm so confused about everyhting....