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That's not where her mind was at the time.
She did not plan it. Her instincts just took over.
She did not say to herself, "I'm going to put myself between my son
and this oncoming train, even though I know that it will not save him."
It's just that standing aside and doing nothing was not an option.
She was not thinking of herself or the personal consequences at all.
Dumbledore, on the other hand, had a year to think about it.
A year to realize that it would be pointless.
And that faking his death would do more good than the real thing.
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So you're trying to say that an event has to be planned way in advance to be sacrifice? I really have no idea what gives you that notion.
Dumbledore faking his death is not sacrifice. Not realy for Dumbledore anyway. Snape is sacrificing his standing among the good side by Dumbledore faking his death. The fact that Dumbledore planned it (I'm not quite sure why you say it had to have been a year in advance, but that's beside the point) has nothing to do with it being sacrifice or not.
Lily may not have gone through some long thought out process to come to the point where she placed herself between Voldemort and Harry, but she knew full well that she could die. It was a last ditch effort to stop the death of her son. She didn't know it would definitely not save him. The way you are portraying it is saying Lily's death was suicide and that's absurd.