[HPforGrownups] Re: Holding Court With Voldemorte

[Janette]

No: HPFGUIDX 175911

>
> 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.


montims:
OK - lexicon let me in -
http://www.accio-quote.org/articles/2005/0705-tlc_mugglenet-anelli-1.htm

*ES: This is one of my burning questions since the third book - why did
Voldemort offer Lily so many chances to live? Would he actually have let her
live?*

JKR: Mmhm.

*ES: Why?*

JKR: [silence] Can't tell you. But he did offer, you're absolutely right.
Don't you want to ask me why James's death didn't protect Lily and Harry?
There's your answer, you've just answered your own question, because she
could have lived and chose to die.


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