Why did Voldemort offer to spare Lily? (was: Reactions to Snape)

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No: HPFGUIDX 175805

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Zara" <zgirnius at ...> wrote:
>
> 
> > JudySerenity:
> > But boy, is it sad!  I cried when Snape died looking into 
Harry's 
> > eyes.  In fact, the only thing that made me feel better was 
> imagining 
> > (as several others did here), that Snape "woke up" in the 
afterlife 
> > (in his equivalent of King's Cross station, perhaps) looking 
into 
> > Lily's eyes. 
> 
> zgirnius:
> *sob* Yes, it is sad. I guess I tell myself that in the end he 
> succeeded, he played his part in ensuring that Voldemort was 
defeated 
> and Harry survived. It should make, hypothetically, facing Lily a 
bit 
> easier.
> 

Mim:

Only Snape didn't do exactly that. His last dying act was to give 
Harry the memories to ensure that Voldemort would be defeated and 
Harry would die. I don't think the was thinking that Lily would be 
too happy with him.