Lily the popular girl

[Dana]

No: HPFGUIDX 167925

Julie:
> ::raises her hand:: I don't think Voldemort cares either way,
> as long as he destroys the Prophecy child and never has to
> deal with her again. Giving her to Peter is no real skin off
> his nose (metaphorically speaking). Though it's clear he
> wasn't going to expend any effort beyond the single casual
> offer, what's it matter to him if he lets what he sees as
> a powerless and broken woman survive?
> 
> As for whether he suspected Lily wouldn't accept his offer,
> that could be. Voldemort doesn't understand love, but he does
> know that other wizards value love. He no doubt considers
> them pathetic idiots, but he can recognize and manipulate
> the emotion. He just doesn't respect it at all, thus he
> underestimates its true power, as he underestimated Lily's
> sacrifice, and will probably underestimate it again in DH,
> allowing Harry to defeat him by using love in some manner. 


Dana:

Or maybe no one asked LV to let Lily live but LV was just not out 
there to kill Lily and she should just not make such a fuss and stand 
aside while he killed her son. I can't see how it would be an act of 
love to ask a murderous lunatic to let the mother/wife live, while he 
just killed her husband and is about to kill her son. What life would 
Lily have had if she had chosen her own life over that of Harry? 
Maybe LV thought it would be the best punishment for a mother, who 
gave birth to the only one who is said to be able to defeat him. 
Maybe he wanted her to suffer the way he himself suffered when his 
mother choose to die instead of living for her child. Or maybe he 
didn't figure mothers actually choose the life of their child over 
their own because his mother did not. Besides people knowing Lily 
would also know she would never ever step aside. 

To be honest what ever the reason, I do not believe that it had 
anything to do with someone asking LV but that it has everything to 
do with LV himself and his own relation with his mother.
Snape specifically says in HBP that once LV has made up his mind then 
no one is able to change it and he is not stupid enough to try. It 
does not make sense that LV would do something out of request because 
it would show him weak if he did and new requests would be pouring in 
everyday. I do not believe he showed Lily mercy out of the goodness 
of his heart to please one of his death eaters, I believe he didn't 
show her mercy at all but figured she would step aside and let him do 
his thing because he never figured a mother would sacrifice herself 
for her child, his mother surely did not.  

I think it is also the reason he tells Harry, not to show him his 
mother sacrificed herself but that Harry was the cause of his 
mother's death. He just doesn't understand, it is the greatest act of 
love a mother could give her child.  

Just a thought.

Dana