FAQs: Lily died before James?

[Jenni A.M. Merrifield]

No: HPFGUIDX 103801

Gorda wrote:
> JKR updated the FAQ section of her official site and this was one 
of the updates:
> 
> "At the end of 'Goblet of Fire', in which order should Harry's 
> parents have come out of the wand?
> 
> 
> James first, then Lily. That's how it appears in my original 
> manuscript but we were under enormous pressure to edit it very 
> fast and my American editor thought that was the wrong way around, 
> and he is so good at catching small errors I changed it without 
> thinking, then realised it had been right in the first place. We 
> were all very sleep-deprived at the time."

[...snip...]

> Here's the test-only link:
> 
> http://www.jkrowling.com/textonly/faq_view.cfm?id=19

Jenni replies:

  Uhmmm... I just clicked on that link you gave and the text very 
definitely starts:

  "Lily first, then James. ..."

  I even checked the flash version and it says the same thing.

  Soooo... it looks like all the recent hypothesizing has been for 
naught.  (But it was still fun, wasn't it? ;-)

Jenni A. M. Merrifield
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