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The January Challenge: Lily revisited

sylvanawood

1/3/11 04:02 pm

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.

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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• Re: Pearlette to Duj

  oryx_leucoryx

  1/14/11 04:03 am (UTC)

  See, I really don’t want to argue like this about Severus, because I think he rocks. But if you drag Lily down to this level, then Severus comes too. Because he knew Harry had to die. For a whole YEAR. No, he didn’t like it, but he went along with it. So that makes him better than Lily’s shade … how, exactly? And Harry accepts it and doesn’t get angry at any of them, only has doubts about Dumbledore (which he then resolves). That’s why he welcomes his family of shades in the Forest and why he honours Severus at the end of the book.
  
  The difference between Severus and Lily is that Severus protested Albus' plan for Harry while Lily only cheered Harry on. Had I been in Harry's place I would have wanted to see my mother protesting and raging against my soon-coming death, however ineffective such protest can be wrt the events.
  
  The whole walk through the forest didn't work for me at all - though when I read it the first time it was because by that point I was too sick of Harry and just wanted him to die already.

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  • Re: Pearlette to Duj

    (Anonymous)

    7/1/11 01:37 pm (UTC)

    Assuming the shade IS the real Lily and not a convenient relection of Harry's desires and aussuming that it didn't know that Harry would be protected...
    
    Snape on the other hand is very real and alive during the last year and believes for certain that Harry will die.

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    • Re: Pearlette to Duj

      oryx_leucoryx

      7/2/11 02:19 am (UTC)

      He was working with too many unknowns, thanks to his master (the white-bearded one). I suppose he should have kidnapped the trio from the Forest of Dean, held them in some secret dungeon at Hogwarts, Legilimensed Albus' lessons from Harry. (Or perhaps Severus should have threatened Ginny, publicly, to make sure he caught Harry. A bit dangerous, Tom doesn't like independent initiative.) Then once he was done swearing at Albus for the mess he created over the years, set off to hunt Horcruces as well as researching ways to remove a soul-bit from a living being while leaving said being's own soul in place. All the while preventing DEs from killing or kidnapping any students. Not knowing about the Elder Wand he wouldn't know how long he had until Tom decided to kill him. (Someone should write that fic.)
      
      Who knows, maybe he was researching the Harrycrux problem in his spare time and didn't kidnap the trio from the Forest of Dean because he was not making progress, so the least he could do was not hamper whatever progress Harry may have been making in whatever mysterious assignment Albus left to him.
      

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