"Re: hearing voices" <-- imagined? & text of the voices

[Meg]

No: HPFGUIDX 53201

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "nobodysrib" <nobodysrib at y...> 
wrote:

> 
> I close with a fun project I took on.  I pieced together all of 
what 
> Harry heard to see how the full conversation may have taken place.  
> (As I was typing the quotes out before, I saw minor discrepencies 
> between some of them, leading me to believe that Harry is hearing 
> different parts of the conversation with each dementor encounter):
> 
> ... then came a new voice, a man's voice, shouting, panicking -
> M (male voice): "Lily, take Harry and go!  It's him!  I'll hold him 
> off -"
> The sounds of someone stumbling from a room - a door bursting open -
 
> a cackle of high-pitched laughter - 
> F (female voice): "Not Harry!  Not Harry!  Please, I'll do 
anything -"
> H (high pitched voice): "Stand aside.  Stand aside, girl!"
> F: "Not Harry, not Harry, please not Harry"
> H: "Stand aside, you silly little girl... stand aside now..."
> F: "Not Harry, please no, take me, kill me instead -"
> F: "Not Harry!  Please... have mercy... have mercy..."
> A shrill voice was laughing, the woman was screaming.
> 
> - Nobody's Rib, who, despite her musings, really wants Harry to 
have 
> heard what really happened that night

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Well, when I read the scene all peiced together in my mind like that, 
I too have come to the conclusion that it must be Harry's imagination 
providing this dialogue, and not the real situation.  I agree that 
Harry was only a 1 year old baby and is in my opinion impossible for 
him to remember something he could not comprehend at the time.  Also, 
whether or not the man in the scene is James, both of the adults seem 
awfully concerned about the safety of Harry.  True, he is Lily's son 
and all but Harry's name just seems to come up a little to often.  I 
don't really know how to explain what I am thinking here...

Basically I think that if people were in such a situation, they would 
be very concerned about their own survial as well as their children.  
It also makes it seem like Voldemort was going after Harry first, 
which, knowing Voldemort, doesn't seem like something he would be 
very concerned about.  Anyway, what I am getting at here is that 
perhaps Harry's imagination makes him almost the most important 
person in the scene because he wonders how he survived the whole 
ordeal.  Does any of this make sense?