Re: Unanswered Questions

On Sat, 17 Mar 2007 04:02:02 -0400, Toon <toon@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Fri, 16 Mar 2007 11:05:37 +0100, cwlNO@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Green-Eyed
Chris) wrote:

I find it very odd that Voldemort should be
the only one who knew about how it might work in such a case and that he
should then be precisely the one "to overlook it". How convenient for
Lily.

He overlooked it because he doesn't understand love. To him, when
faced with death, and offered a chance to live at the expense of
another, you screw that other over big time. You don't accept death.
Lily did, and her death protected Harry. It was that willingness to
die even when escape was possible that V overlooked.

That does seem to be what Rowling was going for.


Something I'm
sure took a while to dawn upon him. He had years to analyze what the
frick just happened.


Remember what a young Voldemort old Dumbledore once:

"The old argument,,,But nothing I have seen in the world has
supported your famous pronouncements that love is more powerful than
my kind of magic, Dumbledore."

You would think that the Godric's Hollow fiasco would have made him
realize there was something to Dumbledore's ideas, after all. But he
still doesn't seem to get it -- in GoF he still refers to Lily's
sacrifice as if he thought it was nonsense, even though it was love
that almost destroyed him...




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