Re Apparate to Possess

[cubfanbudwoman]

Lyn:
> This would go a long ways towards explaining the "Take Me" line of 
> Lilly's at GH, and offers an alternative explanation for her 
> statement "Not Harry," and is why LV calls Lilly a silly girl. He 
> did not necessarily think her silly for trying to protect her 
> child, but surely found her silly for thinking he might be 
> interesting in possessing her rather than the repository of the 
> "power," i.e., Harry.


SSSusan:
Now **this** is brilliant!  Absolutely, totally, a brilliant reading 
of this.  

Folks who're members at that other list may know that I have asked, 
more than once, for SOME kind of explanation as to why Voldy would 
ever have said "step aside" to Lily.  It just doesn't make sense.  I 
mean, he's not the kind of guy who's just got a soft spot in his 
heart for a pretty girl, one wouldn't imagine.  And he isn't exactly 
likely to have been related to Lily in some way and inclined to have 
spared her for that reason.  Some suggested, as an outgrowth of 
LOLLIPOPS, that perhaps Voldy had promised to spare her for Snape's 
sake.  But nothing I've read ever really quite fit both the 
situation and the (presumed) personality of the villain.  

THIS fits.

Siriusly Snapey Susan, with yet another poorly disguised "I agree!" 
post.