Re: What might Lilly have known that DD didn’t?

[carolynwhite2]

--- In the_old_crowd at yahoogroups.com, "Lyn J. Mangiameli" 
<kumayama at ...> wrote:
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> So how might Lily have know that LV might have had some other or 
additional mission beyond murder. Well, I think most would consider 
Snape to be the most likely source of that information, though I 
think Lupin remains a distinct possibility. 

>However, I think it is unlikely that Snape could have been the 
direct source of the warning, as surely Snape's  mind already had 
been well probed by DD, and such info was not to be uncovered. So by 
whatever means, I think there is a distinct possibility that Lily 
knew of the Hx possibility before DD, and even more intriguingly, 
chose not to share that information with him.
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Lyn, good post! I have just done a re-read and possession theory+Hx 
seems more and more likely, for all the reasons you suggest. It also 
explains V's impatient comments: 'stand aside, silly girl', and 'she 
needn't have died'. If he wasn't going to kill Harry, they make sense.

But just to respond to one of the points above - what if Lily got her 
knowledge from Slughorn? She was a favourite student, and he is the 
only person who we have canon evidence of passing on the Hx secret to 
students. He even says to Tom "It's natural to feel some curiosity 
about these things.. wizards of a certain calibre have always been 
drawn to that aspect of magic." 

If Lily, James & Sirius had heard about Hxs, and suddenly suspected 
that was what was in store for their son, it would have been 
simplicity for Lily to have got it out of Sluggie. 

Wonder if it was on that second wonderful day when he took felix 
felicis when he was 57? Tut, tut, nothing like an old man's folly is 
there..

Carolyn