[HPforGrownups] Re: The graves of James and Lily

[Tanya Swaine]

No: HPFGUIDX 111365

At 12:53 27/08/2004, you wrote:

macfotuk  wrote

It has confused me that Petunia says in the 1st book that her
sister 'got herself blown up' and that much else suggests total
destruction (with the obvious exception of HP himself) at Godric's
Hollow. In GoF we learn that AK curse leaves no marks whatsoever (on
the Riddles or on Cedric) so of course one might expect James and
Lily's bodies to have been rescued and honoured by burial or
whatever wizards do (why not funeral pyres or sending them through
that acursed veil even?). Clearly, however, the rebounding of the
curse aimed at Harry had associated destruction - the same happens
incidentally when LV lobs it at DD (who deflects it) in OotP (even
though Crouch Jr as Moody in GoF says its unblockable). Would Lily
and James' bodies have survived the smoking rubble? methinks that on
the basis of the theory that Harry 'died', but didn't, during this
curse, but instead was fused with LV, sealed and marked by the scar
(which after all looks like a permanent crack opening into a
formerly perfect vessel), everything around might well have been
obliterated. I'm not sure if PoA film director Cuaron got it wrong,
but somehow I doubt it. It isn't canon because JKR hasn't said it,
but that doesn't mean it's wrong. I have a pet theory that JKR
ensures that the films (spit rant sorry for metioning them here)
contain any clue that is important for future plot development and
so telling him that a graveyard becomes significant in book 6 might
well be something she felt compelled to reveal (though I'm sure
hoped he wouldn't blab in public!).


Tanya here.

I have found this thread quite interesting.  But I only have one comment
to make on the status of the destruction.  In POA, page 268, in the shack,
Sirius speaks of finding the house destroyed and their bodies.  According
to Hagrid, earlier in the book, Sirius arrives shortly after Hagrid gets Harry
out of the house.

True, their bodies might of been damaged in the explosion, but they were
still discernible.

Tanya