Holding Court With Voldemorte

[kenneth9840]

No: HPFGUIDX 175885

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "prep0strus" <prep0strus at ...> 
wrote:
>
> There's been some talk of Voldemorte's motivation to not kill Lily
> recently,

Ken says:  Why, o why does anyone believe Voldemort was telling the 
truth here?  All the books, especially Deathly Hallows is full of 
baddies promising to do something if only their opponents will "drop 
their wands" or whatever without any intention of actually fulfilling 
their 'promise/offer', so why on earth should anyone think that 
Voldemort was doing anything other than making a false offer to Lily 
to get her out of the way so he could kill Harry, fully intending to 
turnm on Lily and kill her too when he had done so.

So many people tell lies in the Potterverse, for reasons good or ill, 
such as Dumbledore telling Snape Harry had to die while knowing full 
well that he was protected by his sharing of blood with Voldy. Really 
we must look at people's motivation for saying what they say rather 
than blithely accepting that if they say it they mean it.  A little 
more critical analysis needed.

Ken Clark