[HPforGrownups] Re: Uncle Tom?

[k12listmomma]

No: HPFGUIDX 167112

I am snipping all the previous quotes of Rowling's interviews about Lilly's
eyes- no doubt if you have been following this thread, you've already read
then a dozen times by now.

I too, think that the question of Lilly's eyes might have first only been
about the color and shape, reminding everyone of just how much Harry looked
like her. But then, the series seems to be saying that his mother's eyes are
also a point of view, that Lilly had a compassion and a certain way of
looking at life. I think this phrase will evolve even further, to include
abilities, such as the ability to do nonverbal spells- that Lilly could make
her powers work by just directing her eyes. I think if we see any further
developement of the Harry/Lilly's eyes in DH, that it will be in Harry
consciously directing his gaze to make Voldemort suffer, to reflect his
mother's love onto Voldemort to do damage, or to reflect back Voldemort's
hatred back at him, or to do some spell that he hasn't yet learned but has
the power to summon up- (the prophesy: having a power that the Dark Lord
knows not, and LV  can't read Harry's thoughts to see it coming, because it
is also a power that "Harry knows not" until that very second.)

About bloodline, I don't think Voldemort's an "uncle" to Harry, but I have
always thought that if you trace bloodlines far enough back, that you would
find some common ancestor- kind of like someone today could trace their
roots back to George Washington or The Duke of York, but that those
bloodlines are so watered down and removed that there is practically no
commonality between the modern decendents.

Shelley