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

[Zara]

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> > 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.

zgirnius:
Yes, I saw that too, and it did make the death that much sadder. And 
even worse because in my (admittedly perhaps overly sentimental) 
reading of the book, Snape has developed some positive feelings for 
both Harry and Dumbledore, and it fell to him in Dumbledore's plans to 
send Harry to his death, and kill Dumbledore.

What I had in mind is that in the Potterverse afterlife, the deceased 
seem to know what the living have been up to. So while he died ignorant 
of the outcome, Snape would have seen after his death that Harry 
survived by trusting in the information he passed on, and then went on 
to finally defeat Voldemort.

About your other post, I am sorry I misunderstood. I suspected I might 
be misinterpreting your opinion, but I have seen it seriously proposed 
elsewhere that Snape *did* actively want the other Potters dead.