[HPforGrownups] Re: Lily's protection for Harry

[Peggy Wilkins]

No: HPFGUIDX 151827

On 5/3/06, chrusotoxos <chrusokomos at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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?

I always assumed that with "he was going to be murdered anyway" JKR
meant simply that he wasn't offered a choice, whereas Lily was; and
that that was the basic difference between James' death and LIly's
death.  James couldn't offer to die in Harry's place because he was
outright killed.

For my own thinking, I'm not ruling out the possibility that there
really was a reason Lily was offered the chance to live, but I'm just
saying that it's possible to understand this situation without
requiring that to be the case,  because of Voldemort's view of mothers
based on his own mother's having given up on him.  Had Lily stepped
aside, it would have confirmed Voldemort's views.  It could have been
a subconscious ploy on his part to test this.

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Peggy Wilkins
enlil65 at gmail.com