[HPforGrownups] my *one* rock solid OoP prediction

[Merlin]

No: HPFGUIDX 60245

Merlin:
>> Lupin burst into the room in a flash of red sparks, the color of a true 
>> Gryffindor(AKA heir of Godric).
>> 
> whoa, hold on here -- in GoF, the Champions were told to send up red sparks 
> if they got in trouble in the maze and needed to be rescued, and only one of 
> the Champions was a Gryffindor, so red sparks can't be confined to Gryffindors, 
> or the Heir of Griffindor, only.  Also, in PS/SS, Hagrid told the kids (who 
> were in the Forbidden Forest on detention) to send up green sparks if they found 
> the unicorn, red sparks if they were in trouble (I think I got those in the 
> right order), and this group of students included a Slytherin (Malfoy) so a 
> "flash of red sparks" doesn't signify someone being the Heir of Gryffindor, or 
> even from Gryffindor house, IMO.

The examples you give though are of them conciously sending certain color sparks out.  When Lupin bursts into the room, I doubt seriously that he made a concious decision to use red sparks.

> As for the switching spell, where James took over Remus's body -- if this 
> really happened, where's Remus?  Did he die at the Potters' house in James' 
> place?  Why would James leave his family?  And since Voldie can see through 
> deception (apparently, many examples of which were given in a recent post), wouldn't 
> he see that the "James" he killed was not the real James Potter?  He believes 
> he killed James Potter -- he told Harry so in GoF (he told Harry to "stand up 
> and die like a man, like your father" -- something like that, I don't have the 
> book handy) I don't think this "body switch" happened at all -- it doesn't 
> seem logical -- or logistically possible -- to me.  JMO.

As this prediction is my opinion also, but if you read deeper into the clues left by J.K. Rowlings I think the fact that at least James is alive is apparent.   As for what happened to Remus well as Sirius tells Rat fink when Peter says that Voldemort would have killed him, "then you should have died just as we would have died for you."  I think that the Potter bloodline is very important, and I think that the three trustworthy marauders and Lily went to extreme lengths to preserve James and Harry.  As for Voldemort realizing he hadn't killed the real James Potter, I don't think he could have known since the person he killed was in the real James' body.  MR. Olivander did say that Lily's wand was excellent for charms.

Merlin




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