[HPforGrownups] Re: Harry's parents really are dead

[Jennifer Boggess Ramon]

No: HPFGUIDX 33877

At 3:55 PM -0500 1/21/02, NOTaMuggleFamily at aol.com wrote:
>Sorry for the misunderstanding, but I meant do we KNOW that Voldemort was
>*THEE* killer...other than his 'downfall' I read no proof that Voldemort
>killed James and Lily, as no one really saw it, could someone else have done
>the deed?  We have the wand spell in book 4, but someone else could have used
>Vs wand. (Probably not, but its a possiblity.)

Voldemort confesses to Lily's murder in the graveyard scene in GoF. 
While he doesn't mention James, it would be odd for someone else to 
have killed James with Voldemort's wand and then Voldemort to have 
taken the wand back and killed Lily with it.

Voldemort tells Harry that he killed James in the Mirror of Erised's 
chamber in PS/SS.

So, unless Voldemort is lying (which is a possibility in PS/SS, as he 
lies about James and Lily begging for mercy, although I can't think 
why he'd do so in GoF in front of the Death Eaters), he is personally 
responsible for the deaths of both James and Lily Potter.

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