[HPforGrownups] Voldemort's Intentions

[June Ewing]

Bart:
Assuming Morty's on the sociopathic/psychopathic spectrum (not a
difficult assumption, especially since it's the literary version of the
condition), it makes eminent sense. Snape was always extremely talented
in the black arts. He had a lot of potential as a tool to Morty. Morty
wanted to kill the baby, but Lily Potter was no obstacle. She was,
however, potentially useful as a way of imparting a sense of debt into
Snape, which, in turn, would be of use to Morty. So, Morty was willing
to let her live, unless she proved to be more trouble than she was
worth. Which she did.



June:
If Voldemort really wanted to keep Lily alive for Snape he could have.  She was standing in front of Harry unarmed, he could have used any number of spells to get her out of the way unharmed. Whether his intentions were to keep her alive or not I think in the heat of the moment he just decided he wanted to kill her and did.








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