Do we really get our closer?

[Elizabeth Snape]

No: HPFGUIDX 177187

 zanooda: 
> Oh, I don't know, maybe we shouldn't compare uncontrolled 
children's 
> magic with "real" adult magic. This kind of "flying" happened not 
> only to Lily, but to other kids too.
> 
> Remember Neville's uncle Algie who hanged the poor boy out of the 
> window by the ankles, and then accidentally let go? Neville didn't 
> hit the ground, he "bounced", in his words - some kind of 
levitation, 
> maybe? 
> 
> Even Harry once found himself on the roof of the school, when 
Dudley 
> was chasing him. I don't know if it was levitation or maybe 
something 
> else, like spontaneous apparition, but anyway ... . I don't think 
> these "childhood accidents" show that a person will be more capable 
> of flying later in life then others. But I could be wrong of 
> course  :-).
> 
> zanooda
>

What happens to Harry is accidental magic. What Lily's doing isn't.  
She knows exactly what she's doing and has obviously done it before.  
Here's how it's described in 'The Prince's Tale' pg. 663:

>"Lily, don't do it!" shrieked the elder of the two.

>But the girl had let go of the swing at the very height of its arc 
>and flown into the air, *quite literally flown*, launched herself 
>skyward with a great shout of laughter, and instead of crumpling on 
>the playground asphalt, she *soared like a trapeze artist through 
>the air, staying up too long, landing far too lightly*.

>"Mummy told you not to!" 

To me it's foreshadowing of Snape's 'flying' out the window, which 
was probably just gliding down to the ground as Lily did.

Snape's Witch

*my emphasis