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

[lui]

No: HPFGUIDX 189806



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. 

luirhys:
I think JK has made it clear that the reason the blood sacrifice worked is 
because LV "gave" her the choice to refuse. As JK explains, there could have 
been countless mothers or fathers or loved ones that threw themselves the person 
he was intending to kill but only Lily had the choice to stand aside, because 
Snape asked this of LV. If LV did not seriously consider sparing her, it would 
be just the same as LV's other victims.*
*I am in no way demeaning Lily's or any of the other literary character's 
deaths/sacrifices. Just wanted to stress a point. Will really have to move and 
find that missing interview
 

 



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