Harry and his mother in SWM -- was Bellatrix

[abraxan]

--- In HPFGU-Movie at yahoogroups.com, "Lizzie Mae Lilly" 
<lizzy1933 at ...> wrote:
>
> --- In HPFGU-Movie at yahoogroups.com, "abraxan" <abraxan@> wrote:
> >
> > 
> <snip>  
> That Pensieve scene is 
> > one of my favorite things in the book.  I can just see Harry 
rushing 
> > up to look his 15-year-old father in the face and the joy on his 
face 
> > at seeing him, Sirius and Remus there.  I've always thought it 
odd 
> > that Harry didn't recognize "Evans" as his mother, Lily Evans.> 
> But he did recognize his mother -- 
> 
> "'Leave him ALONE!'
> 
> "It was one of the girls from the lake edge.  She had thick, dark 
red 
> hair that fell to her shoulders and startlingly green almond-shaped 
> eyes -- Harry's eyes.
> 
> "Harry's mother . . ."
> 
> Although the scene isn't in first person narrative, it is what 
Harry is 
> seeing, so it seems to me that, yes, he does recognize his mother.
> 
> More to the point, later when Harry's thinking about the scene, he 
> can't understand why his mother would have married James Potter and 
he 
> wonders if his father might have forced her into marriage.
> 
> Lizzie Mae
>

What I meant (and didn't explain clearly - sorry) was that Harry 
didn't react when he saw his dad writing "Evans" and Lily's initials 
on his parchment after the exam.  Yes, he did recognize her in the 
Pensieve scene.  That's going to be a wonderful scene in the film, I 
think!

Lynda