Holding Court With Voldemorte

[kenneth9840]

No: HPFGUIDX 175897

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Janette <jnferr at ...> wrote:
>
> >
> > prep0strus 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
> 
> 
> montims:
> 
> people believe he was telling the truth because JKR says that is 
what
> happened, and that Lily had a choice - that was what invoked the 
ancient
> magic after all.  Now it could be that what JKR says is no longer 
treated as
> canon, but Harry lived BECAUSE Lily didn't have to die. 

Ken says:

No one is saying Lily didnt believe she had a choice.  Its Voldemort 
we are talking about.  The only choice he was really giving Lily was 
to die either before or after her son.

Ken Clark