Lily the popular girl

[Dana]

No: HPFGUIDX 167942

Montavilla47:
> But can we really say that Merope didn't choose her child's life 
over her own?  If there really is any choice about dying in 
childbirth.

Dana:
Merope didn't die because she just got an incurable illness; she died 
because she gave up on life when Tom Riddle Sr rejected her. She died 
of a broken heart, not wanting to take care of her self. And 
therefore she did not choose to live for her child. If she had placed 
the live of her child over her own. then she would have learned to 
life what that broken heart because being there for her son would be 
more important then dwell on things that could never be. By the way 
she did not die in childbirth, she died later after she made her 
wishes know. She wanted him to have his father's great looks and his 
name. 

JKR did not write Merope as a critical ill woman in the sense of 
disease but made the distinction she did not want to life and pretty 
much chose death, instead of facing life and the responsibility of 
having a son to take care of. 

Lily made a choice that her son's life was more important then her 
own. She knew if she did nothing LV would kill Harry and she did the 
only thing she could possibly think off that could protect her son. 

If LV had given her the choice for both of Harry and her to live, 
then she would have taken it, even if she had to live with the grief 
of losing James. She would have been there for Harry. That is why her 
death protected Harry not because she was willing to leave him but 
because she was willing to die for him, even if she did not have too. 

Dana