Voices from the past

[finwitch]

No: HPFGUIDX 47188

With the help of a Dementor, Harry hears his Dad telling Lily to run 
while he helds him[Voldemort] off.

This is further past than Lily's death (which Harry heard on a 
separate occasion before this with Dementors).

This is Harry's worst memory. While it IS clear that a 13-year-old 
Harry can't be expected to remember what his parents sounded/looked 
like or anything at ALL about that night even though he did, somehow, 
remember the Green Light with no help from anyone. He did keep 
touching that memory as one touches a sore place, but after Hagrid 
told him the truth, he also remembered Voldemort's laughter.

It's a memory of the one-year-old, the one-year-old who DID know what 
his parents sounded like, if not much else. The one-year-old's mind 
associated those voices with his parents, and that association is a 
part of the memory. There's nothing a one-year-old fears more than 
losing his parents. It is that, therefore, that to Harry, a Dementor 
symbolises the fear itself.

Why didn't Harry *see* his parent's death in this, BTW? He says he 
*hears* them, but doesn't mention anything he saw except ever-so-
famous Green Light?

-- Finwitch