Lily died before James? Scans of Relevant Pages.

[ewdotson01]

No: HPFGUIDX 103830

> > > Annemehr: 
> > > I'm holding my GoF hardcover in my hands also. I bought it the  week 
> > > it was released, and it too says "Your mother's coming..." right on 
> > > p. 667.  Also, on the title page, it says "First American Edition, 
> > > July 2000."
> > > 
> > > Oh, well, at least it seems clear by now that the first copies in 
> > > both the US and UK had James emerging before Lily.
> 
> 
> Steve/asian_lovr2:
>  > Thanks you so much for posting. Since I now have two separate
> > unrelated people who are swearing they hold a 'American Edition' in
> > their hand that says. '...your mother is coming...', I think we can
> > now take it as an absolute fact. 
> > 
> > The earliest copies of the Scholastic -American Edition originally
> > matched the first UK edition. James came out of the wand and said
> > '...your mother's coming...' the Lily appeared; James before Lily.
> <snipping>
> 
> Jen: This is so weird. I have a First American Edition, July 2000, 
> exactly like Annemehr's, with Lily coming out first and telling 
> Harry to hold on for James.
> 
> Do you think different batches of the First Edition got shipped to 
> different parts of the US? I can't think of any reason why all the 
> First Editions wouldn't match. Unless some were shipped and the rest 
> pulled.
> 
[snip]

I did some research when I first saw the discrepancy, and I do 
believe that the difference is that we have a different (and later 
printing).  As I understand it, the publishing houses will do a first 
printing of the first edition of XXXXX copies of the book.  If 
there's still demand, they'll do another printing of however many 
copies of the book.  Now, from what I can tell, they only do a new 
edition if major changes are made.  It seems quite possible to me 
that they were able to slip this change into the later printings 
without feeling it justified a new edition. (And as I didn't buy 
my "First edition, July 2000" until sometime in 2001, I'm fairly sure 
it's a much later printing.  I put off picking up Harry Potter longer 
than I normally would have as I was annoyed at the fact that I was 
always made fun of for reading light fantasy in grade school.  It 
hardly seemed fair that it became the in thing to do after I 
graduated from college.  ;)  I am not, however, in the book 
publishing business, so I certainly wouldn't take my word as gospel 
though.  :)

Ernest