[HPforGrownups] Lily's panic

[k12listmomma]

No: HPFGUIDX 179451

> Allie:
>
> I tend to agree here.  If Lily could do a disillusionment charm
> (which I'm sure she must have been able to do, since Crabbe and
> Goyle were proficient enough in it that they went unnoticed by Harry
> & co. in the Battle of Hogwarts), then she would have been able to
> accomplish virtually the same thing as with a cloak.  Cast a charm
> over herself and Harry and they can be hidden.  I still don't think
> this would have fooled Voldemort, nor would a cloak, but she didn't
> think of it in the panic.
>

Shelley:
Again, Lily didn't have a wand to do a disillusionment charm. It wasn't a 
matter of her panicking and not being able to pull the spell off with her 
wand, it's a matter that she couldn't have even attempted the spell 
wandless. She was a sitting duck.

You do know the real reason that Lily didn't have a cloak, the real reason 
that she didn't perform a disillusionment charm, the real reason she didn't 
have a wand handy? It has nothing to do with what a smart and capable witch 
she was, nor how she panicked- it's because Rowling wanted, no, needed, her 
dead. From the moment JKR starting planning this story, she planned for 
Harry to be alone. This whole series, repeated, she had killed off anyone at 
all that was helpful to Harry. She wanted him to be parentless, singular, 
and so Lily not having the Invisibility Cloak and not having a wand and not 
being able to do any spells while wandless were just the details that she 
used in the death scene. It's not a matter of if it would be reasonable to 
say "if she had this, she would have lived", because no matter what she had, 
the final outcome of JKR's writing for that scene is for her to be dead. So, 
it's a given that anything that would have been a help, Lily would NOT be 
given. I still think that she's a smart witch and would not have panicked 
had she had aids (a wand, an invisibility cloak, the means of disapparating, 
the means of performing a disillusionment charm), but Rowling needs her to 
be totally vulnerable because she needs Voldemort to successfully be a 
murderer that night so that Harry is an orphan. It's also the reason that 
James is wandless, because she meant for Voldemort to just pick them off 
easily, so he can get to Harry.