Lily's protection for Harry

[chrusotoxos]

No: HPFGUIDX 151834

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Sherry Gomes" <sherriola at ...>
wrote:

> Has it ever been said, that Lily did not have a wand?  I can't
remember from
> the interview if JKR said categorically, that Lily was unarmed?  She may
> have had her wand, but with her whole focus being on saving Harry,
she may
> have thought she couldn't get to it or use it fast enough. 
Voldemort could
> have disarmed her as well.  We don't yet know all the details of what
> exactly did happen.  Even though I resent the idea that lily's
sacrifice was
> better and braver than James' dying to protect his family, I can
understand
> a mother's desperation to try to stand between her child and an enemy.  
> 

Chrusotoxos:

At first, I was sure that Lily would at least had her wand when facing
LV, but then someone on this list pointed out that LV would hardly say
"Move aside, silly girl" to a fighting witch ready to grasp his bowel
out. His sentence, and Lily's reply, "Take me instead", suggest that
Lily was defenceless. 
So either a) LV had disarmed her (but then why didn't he kill her? or
stun her?) or b) she never had one, but then why?
It seems obvious that James and Lily weren't thinking on the same
lines: a plan to flee, considering their situation, was certainly
discussed in advance, but then something didn't work. You have LV
walking slowly to their house (ok, this is the movie, but JKR controls
it, doesn't she?), it is insane even for James to stand there. They
surely had a plan which didn't work, forcing James to sacrifice
himself and Lily to come up with some clever last minute idea - only
she didn't. This "problem", as I see it, must have been the mysterious
person(s) JKR is always hinting were there. Who was it?
Not Peter - Sirius met him short before the murder. Not a lesser DE
than LV, they wouldn't have made it past the wards. So a friend, and
here everything points at Snape again.
I disliked Snape in the beginning, then I was forced head-first in the
magical fandom world, and now I want to believe him. But alas, in
canon nothing proves he's good, and JKR always said she dislikes him,
laughs maniacally when asked on which side he is and even added that
he is despicable because someone loved him (vs. LV, who never knew
what love was) - and here is another question: who? Ok, maybe his
parents, and?