Lily's panic was Re: Fees for Harry

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 179434

> > Pippin:
> > LOL! "He could hear her screaming from the upper floor" "listening
> > with faint amusement to her attempts to barricade herself in" --
> > Voldemort didn't  see where Lily went, he *heard* her.  She
> > panicked. The cloak wouldn't have prevented that.
> 
> Shelley:
> Oh, come on. Do you really think that if Lily had an invisibility cloak that 
> she wouldn't have immediately ducked under it with Harry and then attempted 
> to be as quiet as possible? Do you really think that she'd be screaming her 
> head off beneath an invisibility cloak, or making noise by attempting to 
> block the door if she might need it to excape???

Pippin:
In the first place, Peter Pettigrew knew all about the cloak, so Voldemort
would have been prepared for it. In the second place, if Lily didn't think
of being still and silent and then sneaking out of the house while Voldemort 
was looking for her, why would she think of it if she'd had the cloak? 

Panicky people do stupid things because panic makes people stupid --
it has nothing to do with how smart they are otherwise, or whether there
are means of escape which they could have used if they weren't out of their
minds with fear.

Pippin