Lily and James alive?

[brandgwen at hotmail.com]

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Laurence 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.

Catherine wrote:
>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!

Further, it would mean that James i) allowed his best friend to go to 
Azkaban for an act of treachery he did not commit, ii) allowed his 
second best friend to roam the world, alone, for over ten years and 
iii) allowed the accomplice to the attempted murder of his family go 
free.

While some mystical agenda might cover one or two bad things coming 
from their faked deaths, I don't think it would cover all.  That night 
and the events which followed were catastrophic to their intimate 
circle.  The Potters had better not be in hiding!

Gwen.