Who was witness to the killing of James and Lily?

[grey_wolf_c]

No: HPFGUIDX 42241

Inge wrote:
> Of course I watch tv.
> Only Harry's body wasn't there for investigators to give clue or 
> evidence to the fact that Lily died trying to protect him.

I think we arte talking C.S.I. here, but that's besides the point... 
(as well as OT). Anyway, even if there was no baby, it's easy to 
imagine where the baby *was* just before the explosion i.e. in the 
exact center of it. Then too, there is the fact that there are spells 
that allow to see a bit of the past (like the prior incantato to know 
the last spell of a wand, there may be others to know the last spell in 
a place, or even, dabling in necromancy, to ask the dead about what 
happened) and the spells that allow a magical equivalent of CSI.

> Besides, in PoA, Sirius states that when he arrived at the house it 
> was a mess (still havent got the english book-version so not sure 
> about the accuracy of the words here) - had there been an explosion 
> of some kind? That might have left the bodies in somewhat different 
> positions than when killed.

Even if the bodies move around during an explosion, it's posible to 
reconstruct the original scene. The study of movement of bodies (bodies 
as in "objects", not as in "corpses") is very exact, and you just have 
to know the strenght of the explosion,which is very easy when you have 
as many debris as there was in the crime scene. 
 
> I also wonder - where are the graves of James and Lily? Nobody ever 
> took Harry to visit their graves....
> 
> Inge

There is a rumour that they are buried in Godric's Hollow. In line to 
your question, JKR said that in book five Harry would be going to a 
place whe have heard off but where we have no yet been, and a few 
people suggested Godric's Hollow to visit his parents graves. It 
doesn't fit perfectly, but you never know (for example, we*have* been 
there: with Harry, during the Dementor's scenes).

Hope that helps,

Grey Wolf