Yes, exactly - and that's certainly an interesting and pertinent example. But I can think of so many others - parents from all cultures, all over the world, have done extraordinary things for their children. However, I do have to say that in any contest of reason and common sense, Muggles would always win over Rowling's Wizards hands-down.

Rowling needed Lily to sacrifice herself and die, and she needed her sacrifice to protect Harry. I understand that. I do not understand why she had to make the poor girl look a fool in the process. As it is, I have more sympathy with both Narcissa Malfoy and that Muggle mother from Germany than I do with Lily. That cannot be what Rowling intended, can it?