[HPforGrownups] Re: Priori Incantatem Order

[Penny & Bryce Linsenmayer]

No: HPFGUIDX 1691

Hi --

Kelley wrote:

> Well, maybe, but Harry "looked back into the ghostley face of his
> father."  Who then tells him his mother's coming, she wants to see
> him.  Sounds like it really is James to me.  And, if Harry ~makes~
> James come out first, why?  Look back at what James says to Harry
> when he comes out of the wand, and at what Lily says.  If you reverse
> what they say to Harry, e.g.-- "Your father wants to see you," etc.,
> it doesn't really seem to make any difference.  When James comes out
> of the wand, and Harry realizes who it is, the book says "the man
> appearing was the one he thought of more than any other tonight."  If
> Harry's most vivid images (from the Dementors) are of his mother
> screaming/being killed, why wouldn't she be more on his mind than his
> father?  All he 'hears' is James yelling "Take Harry and run," or
> something like that.  Why was he thinking of James more than Lily
> that night?

I think he feels a closer connection to his father in many ways (perhaps
partly because Harry has learned more about his father & father's
friends than he has about his mum).  His Patronus is a very strong
example of his emotional connection with his father.  In PoA, he seems
especially keen to see his father.  He is said to look exactly like his
father.   Also, when he hears his father's voice in the Dementor
Memories, this moves him to tears.  He hadn't cried earlier when hearing
his mother's pleading screams.

Voldemort had just been taunting him with how his father had faced
Voldemort bravely, and Harry had just been thinking that he wasn't going
to die crouching behind a tombstone but rather standing upright & brave
as his father had.  So . . . . it doesn't seem strange to me that his
father was more on his mind then.

Penny


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