Voices from the past (Re: [HPforGrownups] Snape and the Potters)

[Carol Bainbridge]

No: HPFGUIDX 47163

Iris wrote:

>I've been following the debate about the man's voice Harry hears while 
>he's learning how to conjure the Patronus Charm. According to Carol, it's 
>Severus's voice, not James's. That's an interesting possibility, and I 
>respect it. However, I think  that the explanation is more simple, and 
>that Lupin's reaction to what Harry says is connected to the psychological 
>context of PoA rather than to the attack on Godric's Hollow.

I would like to clarify something here.  I originally wrote a message 
(#47054) about Snape and the Potters and the missing 24 hours, suggesting 
that Snape and Lucius may have been present when Lilly was killed.  It was 
based on idle thoughts about Harry's dream after the sorting ceremony in 
SS/PS.  (That it is actually a memory, not just a dream.)  Melpomene 
responded that Snape might very well have been present and added that for a 
variety of reasons, the voice Harry hears couldn't be that of James.  In 
response to that, I said my first inclination *IF THE VOICE WAS NOT JAMES'* 
would be to say it was Snape's and then I laid out a couple of 
possibilities, but they weren't very convincing to me, which is why I added 
the question about just whose voice it was.  I don't know.  I don't make 
any claims about that!  My original theory doesn't even require James not 
to be there!  As far as my theory goes, it could very well be James' voice 
Harry hears!

I did ask for bugs in my theory.  Maybe the voice is one of them.