Chapter 34 Summary

[Amy Z]

No: HPFGUIDX 14123

Rita wrote:

2) The person identified as 
> James was really Harry and represented the unsuccessful Death Curse 
> that Voldemort cast on baby Harry (the real James would have come 
out 
> after Lily)

Okay, I just posted a message saying that I like the corrected wand 
order just fine, but now I've had a brainwave (or a braincramp, 
depending on your point of view) and I want to run this idea by you.  

The person identified as James was really Harry, as above.  But James 
would not have appeared after Lily, because JAMES NEVER DIED.  
Everyone right up to Dumbledore thinks he did, but one person knows 
better . . . (drum roll please) . . . Remus Lupin.  That's why the 
"strange voice" when he says, "You heard James?"--because he, and he 
alone, knows that James wasn't even there the night Voldemort showed 
up.  The voice Harry heard was his grandfather's (as he said, he'd 
never heard his dad's voice before, so he wouldn't know), but Remus 
doesn't know that anyone else was there that night, so he is wondering 
what on earth Harry did hear.

So where WAS James that fateful night, and where has he been hiding, 
and why, for the last 13 years?  He was on a romantic rendezvous with 
Remus, and his terrible guilt at having been off cheating on his wife 
the night Voldemort showed up to kill them all drove him to Argentina, 
where he changed his fingerprints and got a magical facelift.  He's 
been in a nonstop drunken stupor ever since, tormenting himself with 
shame that he is so far from the hero the wizarding world--and the son 
who never knew him--imagines he is, and refusing to reveal himself.  
Remus visits now and then to do his laundry and beg him to come back 
to England.

Amy Z

P.S.  I don't believe any of this for a moment.