[HPforGrownups] Re: Lupin is James - time travel

[heiditandy]

No: HPFGUIDX 48876



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> From: sharana.geo <sharana.geo at yahoo.com> 
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> Sent: Friday, December 27, 2002 3:20 PM
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> Subject: [HPforGrownups] Re: Lupin is James - time travel
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> Nuri wrote:
> > Sharana wrote at great length and eloquently concerning a theory
> > that Lupin died along with Lily and that James is now 
> > masquerading.<SNIP>
> >
> > JKR has said in interviews that Lily and James are positively
> > dead. 
> 
> Me:
> I have been looking all over the Internet for transcripts of JKR's 
> interviews, but I haven't found anything stating that Harry's 
> parents are positively dead. Could you (or someone) please point me 
> to the correct link where she says this? I'd like to read it. Thank 
> you. (I've already searched aberforthsgoat.net, the Lexicon and 
> other places and couldn't find anything about it)

I probably did a slightly different search than you did on The Goat Pen,
and I found these quotes:

She gets quite exercised if people tell her they think Harry's dead
parents are going to come back to life at the end of book seven. "We've
had petrified people, and we've had what would have been fatal injuries,
but once you're dead you're dead. No magic power can resurrect a truly
dead person." 
http://books.guardian.co.uk/Print/0,3858,4037903,00.html

Rowling: Harry has already dealt with death, of course. He lost his
parents very young, in book four he witnessed a murder, which is a very
disturbing thing. So this is not news to anybody who has been following
the series, that death is a central theme of the books. But, yes, I
think it would be fair to say that in book five he has to examine
exactly what death means, in even closer ways. But I don't think people
who have been following the series will be that surprised by that.
http://radio.cbc.ca/programs/thismorning/sites/books/rowling_001023.html

I think her statement that Harr "lost his parents very young" and "once
you're dead you're dead" make it clear to some that she's saying that
Harry's parents are positively dead and will not come back to life as
living people. 

heidi