[HPforGrownups] order of James/lily's death

[Tandy, Heidi]

No: HPFGUIDX 23028

Lisa Palmer wrote: 
> I was talking with my sister, and she said that in her copy 
> of GoF that when Harry's and Voldermort's wands  are facing 
> off, that James comes out of the wand before Lily. Now the 
> Priori Incantatum spell works backwards, so that the most 
> recent spell should come out first, Cedric was the first to 
> appear, then the old man and Bertha. From what we know 
> happened the night of the Potter's murder, James was killed 
> before Lily, and so Lily should have come out of the wand 
> first.  I don't have my copy of the books, (on loan and damn 
> I wish I could get them back), but I am wondering if this has 
> been changed in later copies?  My sister thought that it 
> might have been fixed so that the order was right. Can anyone 
> help me on this? Is this an editor issue or a Flint?

In the VFAQ for this group, located at
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/files/Admin%20Files/VFAQ.htm (if
you haven't read it in a while, or ever, take a peek!), it says:
In Goblet of Fire, during the fight between Harry and Voldemort, James
Potter appears from Voldemort's wand before Lily Potter.  Surely Lily should
have appeared first if she was killed after James?   

  This was an error.  The scene was rewritten for later editions of the
book.  Both Bloomsbury (UK publisher) and Scholastic (US publisher) have
confirmed this.  
You can see the "corrected" page at
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/files/Publications/priori-s.jpg

Some of us think that the corrected language is bloody awlful and
incongruous, and that JKR would've been better off explaining it in a later
book. 
 


> 
> And by the way..where does the term Flint come in?  Is there 
> a "flint" about Marcus Flint? (I am scratching my head and 
> trying to remember if that is the name or I just made it up.)

I managed to find the first post where it was deemed a FLINT:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/message/8359
Pippin said: 
> I think I will christen these errors/inconsistencies Flints in 
> honor of dumb ol' Marcus of Slytherin, who was (inadvertently) forced 
> to repeat a year at Hogwarts. 



Mods - can we add "What Is A Flint?" to the VFAQ?