Lily and James, a hpappy couple?

[Lady Of The Pensieve]

No: HPFGUIDX 82597

Hello,

this is a question I really wonder.

James and Lily, a happy couple?

Since Goblet of Fire I got an impression of a Potter couple who could
have been a little bit cooled of in love things.
The scene when Harry´s parents shadows came out of Voldemorts wand
seems to me they have been far away from each other. I got this
impression a long time before the Order of Phoenix was released. Then
I read the discription of the photo Moody showed Harry I was perplexed
when I read it was Pettigrew who sat between Lily and James. Text:
"His mother and father were beaming up at him, sitting on either side
of a small, watery-eyed man ......" The Woes Of Mrs Weasley page 158,
UK edition. We can well assume Harry`s parents had been very young
when they got married and the couple on the pic were still very young
people. We know they had been very much in love ?! But what is the
reason for a young and loving couple don´t sitting together on a
photography, arm in arm?
Ok, maybe they were up with defeating Voldemort, but this really could
have been much more reason for them staying officially together as a
couple! Why got Remus in book 3 surprised when Harry told him that he
heard James talking to Lily? "You heard James?" It´s a strange
question, isn´t it?
Could they have been anything wrong with our dreamcouple? Remember
when Dumbledore told Harry the Mirror of Erised just shows the deepest
desires of our hearts. Harry´s deepest longing was to be together with
his parents, who seemed to live in harmony and love for each other.
Dumbledore further told Harry that the mirror definetly do not show
the reality, just our disires.

Any ideas?