Lily and James, a happy couple?

[bigbish13]

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In message 82602 Lady of the pensieve wrote:

>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?

Me,

I always pictured that photo as having 2 or more rows of people, and 
Peter being short, would be in the front row. Most photos of this 
type stagger the rows so that the people in the front row would have 
their faces between the faces of those in the row behind. So I think 
Lily and James probably were standing next to one another.
 
As for Lupin's question, I think that he is just shocked that Harry 
would have any memory of that (given his age at the time) for the 
dementors to drag to the surface. My earliest clear childhood memory 
is being bitten on my arm by my cousin when I was 4. Then again, I 
remember because it was particularly painful, so it's possible that's 
why Harry remembers.

Bish

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