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The other part of it is, why did it protect Harry at all? We are told that no one has ever survived the Avada Kadavara before, but surely there must have been times when someone chose to sacrifice themselves for someone else. Yet, this didn't give the protection to them, but it did for Harry. [/b]
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That specific combination never happened before.
But the general idea of giving your life to protect someone else is "very old magic." In the graveyard, Voldemort was kicking himself for forgetting it.
And speaking of Lily --
A kid from the neighborhood told me today that
at one point Snape said something to Slughorn about Lily. Whatever he said, it implied a connection, and that Snape was angry when James and Lily got together in their 7th year. Is that familiar to anyone? I don't remember it.