[HPforGrownups] Lily and James alive?

[Amanda Lewanski]

No: HPFGUIDX 15266

laurence at lwhyatt.freeserve.co.uk wrote:

> Ever since reading PoA for the second time I have thorght that there
> may be a possibility that L+J are still alive. Now JKR has always said
> in the chats that 'magic cannot bring people back to life' and many
> people have interpreted this as L+J being dead and never coming back.
> But as fasr as I am aware (and correct me if I am wrong) JKR has never
> said that we will never see a living L+J, only implied it.

But that would imply, unmistakably, that both Lily and James were
willing for their son to have the most horrible childhood imaginable. I
imagine you can justify it if you say it had to happen for Voldemort to
be defeated, but if this isn't using evil to a good end, I don't know
what is!

Besides, Sirius says "I set out for your parents' house straight away.
And when i saw their house, destroyed, and their bodies...I realized
what Peter must've done....what I'd done...." (PoA, US p. 365).

The argument could be made that it might not have been James and Lily's
bodies, if they were unrecognizable, but the other Avada Kedavra victims
we've seen were totally unmarked or harmed (except by being dead). Even
if James and Lily were damaged when the house was destroyed, I think
Sirius in his grief would have made sure it was them and that they were
indeed beyond help.


>  Could it be Mrs Figg that I think we are all certain is the same as
> Arabella Figg or is there a posiability if Lily Potter?

Again, I don't want to think Lily could be that cruel, to abandon her
son to the Dursleys.

> I doubt that James would have never told her that he is
> an anamagus and she may well have been interested and asked him to
> teach her how to do it.

By all canon accounts, becoming an Animagus takes years of study and is
quite dangerous. I don't think it would be beyond Lily, but it's not
like a card trick you can learn at a sitting.

> Another reason for L+J still being alive is that during the Prior
> Incanem (or whatever) James came out of the wand before Lily. Now I
> don't think that JKR would have made a mistake that big

Um, well, she did. Bummer, I know, but she's confirmed the order's
wrong.

--Amanda



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