What about Lily's sacrifice in all this DD bashing???

[juli17 at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 158679

 
"Tonks" <tonks_op at ...> wrote:
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For all we know,  Lily might actually have wanted 
> Petunia to care for Harry.  Lily  like DD saw the good in everyone 
> too, and I think that she may have  expected her sister to love and 
> care for a child in her care. The  Potters may have thought that 
with 
> Sirius and Petunia that they had  someone in both world.
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Alla:

Do you see Lily  going along with something she did not want? I 
frankly 
don't. That is  why IMO Sirius is the guardian she would want for her 
kid, not because he  was James' best friend, but because he loved 
Harry. If one is able of loving  the child, one would learn to care 
for the baby, even if one never dealt  with the babies before, but if 
there is no love, then no matter how skilled  caretaker is, something 
very important is missing. IMO.


 
 
Julie:
Lily wanted Sirius as a guardian under certain expected  circumstances,
wherein she and James died while Harry was safely somewhere else
(while doing their jobs as Aurors, unfortunate broom accident,  whatever).
This is NOT the circumstance that eventually transpired because no
one--NO ONE--expected that Lily and James could be murdered by
Voldemort during his quest to kill their defenseless baby and yet that 
defenseless baby would actually LIVE. And it was *Lily* herself who
changed those circumstances. Suddenly blood magic and blood
protection came into play, and this changed *everything* IMO.  The
situation is totally unique, one which James and Lily couldn't have
forseen a need to consider in their guardianship plans. 
 
I honestly think if Lily and James could speak to us from beyond the
grave they would not fault Dumbledore for taking advantage of that
totally unforseen development--the until then unavailable blood 
protection--and placing Harry where he could reap the advantages 
of it. After all, what was the point of Lily's selfless sacrifice, of  her
death that JKR says was more meaningful than James', of the 
pure love she used to save her son (and then passed on to him), if 
there wasn't someone to recognize her sacrifice and make sure 
it was put to the use for which it was intended? 
 
Sirius couldn't do it, so when the circumstances were completely 
altered--*by* Lily, I repeat--it fell to Dumbledore to ensure her  sacrifice
for her son was not in vain. And while one can certainly say Harry
could have been protected in other ways and might have survived--
even had a good chance of surviving--the only certain way to *ensure*
Harry's survival was to place him with the Dursleys and invoke the
full blood protection. The blood protection Lily set in motion,  perhaps
intentionally, with her death.
 
Julie
 
 
 
 


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