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

[June Ewing]

No: HPFGUIDX 189816

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. <


June:
Dumbledore said that it was Lily's sacrifice to give her life
in place of Harry's that caused the protection and Harry even
in Order of the Phoenix at the beginning after finding out that
it could just as easily been Neville was wondering himself if
it had been Neville would Neville's mother have been able to
protect him the way his mother did so that the protection would
have been given to Neville. Don't forget too Dumbledore knew
every thing. He himself said that even he can be wrong about
things but he was aware of every thing that went on around Harry
and he knew all about Snape and what he was up to and if the
protection set by Lily's actions had any thing to do whatsoever
with Snape, Dumbledore would know that and what he told Harry
was that it was Lily's love for him that set the protection.