Lily being spared (was Re: Why did Barty Crouch Jr join Voldemort?)

[June Ewing]

No: HPFGUIDX 189793

Carol responds:
> If we consider the interviews as valid, JKR says otherwise.
Unless Voldemort intended to keep his word, the love magic would
not have worked. Lily *has* to trade her life for Harry's--a true
sacrifice--or there's no love magic, only a double murder that LV
intended all along.

<SNIP>

Carol, noting that in the flashback in DH, Voldemort debates with
himself over killing Lily, indicating that he did *not* intend to
kill her all along <


June:
The fact that Voldemort made a promise to Snape and did not keep
it has little to do with what happened. Lily would not have known
a promise to keep her alive had been made because if she did, she
would have just told her husband that Voldemort was coming over to
kill him and Harry and "Oh yeah, if I keep out of the way and let
him kill you guys I will be spared." It was a total surprise to the
Potters, therefore if Voldemort had accidently killed Lily while
she was protection Harry, the protection Harry had would still be
there because she loved him enough to give her life for him. If
Lily was spared then Harry would have been dead and either there
would be no story at all or a totally different story.










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