<div dir="ltr"><div>The power of love is the explanation. No need to over-think things here. Her message is extraordinarily simple.<br><br></div>Lynda<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 1:08 AM, Birgitta Karlsson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ingridbirgitta@gmail.com" target="_blank">ingridbirgitta@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div><span style="word-spacing:normal">There was no explanation in the books besides what Dumbledoof said
about "teh power of love", which is quite strange, since with the Shit
Eaters killing and torturing all over the UK, there is bound to be some
parent, who tried to save her/his children at the cost of her/his own
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<br>Bridget:</div><div>
Sure there is. <br>
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<b>Voldemort gave Lily a choice</b>, if she would just stand aside and
watch while he killed her son then she would live (<b>and he meant it
too</b>). But since she did what almost any mother would do, when faced
with Voldemort trying to kill their child (I think Bellatrix would
consider it an great honour if Voldemort would kill her child, should
she have any), she tried to shield him and died instead.<br>
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<b>It's that choice that makes all the difference. Just a sacrifice is
not enough.</b><br>
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And I doubt Voldemort gave other parents a choice when he came to kill
them. (I could maybe see a scenario where Voldemort would say that he
would spare someones life if they would just let him kill their child,
saying it but not meaning it, and then afterwards just kill the parents
anyway.)<br>
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/Birgitta<br>
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