For the vast majority of British women, getting married meant taking their husband's surname. After becoming mothers, they were bound by a title called "Mum." Losing their figure and becoming more temperamental were not even the worst parts.
Lily had been very young when she died, and Harry was barely over a year old. So she had not yet had the chance to feel that way—Lily Evans was dead, and the one who survived was Harry Potter's mother. Only in Severus's memories was that red-haired girl, holding a little daisy in her hand, still vividly alive.
The first requirement of being a good mother was not abandoning one's child. When Hagrid was three, his mother abandoned him and his father and returned to the Giant tribe, then gave birth to Grawp with another Giant like herself.
Hagrid had few memories of his mother from childhood. When he spoke of her, he said she "wasn't a good mother."
Voldemort's situation was even worse. His mother had bewitched Tom Riddle Sr. with Amortentia, thinking that once she was pregnant, the man would surely take responsibility for her. But Tom Riddle Sr. had very decisively abandoned both her and little Tom.
Could Tom Riddle Sr. be considered a bad father? He had never been interested in the ugly Merope in the first place. The witch had used magic on him.
It was a muddled account, one that could no longer be settled clearly.
If Lily had abandoned Harry Potter and run away herself, she would not have been shaped into some saintly mother, mourned and remembered in Godric's Hollow.
Pomona walked along the bottom of the sinkhole. As the former home of a Giant tribe, it was exceedingly vast to tiny humans, though it might have been just right for Giants dozens of