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The January Challenge: Lily revisited

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The January Challenge: Lily revisited

[info]sylvanawood
1/3/11 04:02 pm
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The Challenge for January 2011:

Lily revisited



Years ago (we've been around for a while, oh yes!)we had 'Severus and Lily' as a monthly challenge.

[info]alicekinsno1 suggested to take a closer look at Lily's character:

Maybe something that discusses the character of Lily more deeply? I'd love to see what some of your ideas are for just how Lily went from treating Snape so harshly and talking back to James, to being the stereotypical "saintly mother" at the end of her life. There's something about her personality that doesn't add up.

That is to say, how her apparently selfless decision to die for her baby makes sense in light of the way she treated Severus or even James. With possibly a side comment about how despite being so powerful and gifted she didn't really show any of that by dying pleading for her baby's life without even trying to take on Voldemort.

Please post your entries here or in a separate post. I'm looking forward to your entries.
If you have ideas for new challenges, please post them here. (This is a new list, your earlier suggestions are still in the old post).
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  • [info]shyfoxling
    1/12/11 08:18 pm (UTC)
    Also, I don't think it's really in the canon that she was a "stereotypical saintly mother". The last thing we actually see her do before her death, a few months prior, is write that letter to Sirius, and I see nothing "stereotypically saintly" there. I think the perception of her as "saintly", a beautiful domestic Madonna or whatever, is extracanonical. There is some buildup of it in the text, but it's after their deaths - a nimbus attached to tragic young heroes, kind of thing. In fact it's not that far from the sort of iconic devotion Severus seems to demonstrate.

    • (Anonymous)
      1/12/11 09:37 pm (UTC)
      Indeed. I think, JKR creates a visual representation with the statue at Godric's Hollow and the mental image Harry builds up of his father, and mother, through what his told; this transforms as he is presented with the real people in the objective pensieve memories. The two versions don't match, but I don't believe they were ever meant to. It's part of Harry's journey, he loves and honours the true version, flaws and all.

      custos_noctis

      • (Anonymous)
        1/12/11 10:28 pm (UTC)
        Just to add: The letter would fall into the same bracket as the memories, a window into Lily's personality.
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