Revisiting The Boy when He Lived

[Amey Chinchorkar]

No: HPFGUIDX 104187

Hi,

I was thinking of the last hours of Lily Potter (and maybe James), and saw some discepancies.

1.  We are all wondering that James might not be there at the time of the Attack (hence the shocked Lupin when he hears that Harry heard his father's voice.). But, if James is not there when LV came to kill Harry, whose voice did Harry hear telling Lily to take Harry away? Who was this man? If he was not James, where did he go when he was supposedly holding LV at bay? Was it Wormtail by chance, he might have mislead Lily? Or the memory induced by Dementors somehow wrong?

2.  Also if James is not there, how come he came after Lily during Priory? Again where did the man in the scene vanish (because even if in the movie James is not seen, Harry hears some voice during Dementor training. I don't remember if the man is there in movie scene or not)? If he was killed who killed him, because LV can't have killed him. If he was Wormtail, then it all fits, as there is no reason to kill him. But if it was somebosy else, and somebody other than LV killed him, why didn't the other person try and finish LV's work of killing little Harry? Or was he so frightened at seeing the spell backfire that he ran away? 

So there seems to be some discrepancy between the movie scene, harry's memory and the Priory order. Which one is the most canon? (i mean which one should we take as the most perfect as all are canon :))

3. Who told Potters so that they knew "LV was after them long before" (PoA- Prof McGonall)? Was that Snape, that must account for his hatred for Harry, the son of his worst enemy, but he had to save him as he was "the one with powers to vanquish the Dark Lord". (And the hatred increased when he saved Harry in PS/SS). Why couldn't he intimate others in the Order at the time of attack? Or were they late? Because whatever hatred SS felt about JP, i don't see him delaying this most importatnt bit of information just for "petty schoolboy revenge" (Of course, he was ready to give Sirius to dementors, but that was not war).
And Hagrid tells us that he was the first person on the scene, how did he know? DD can't send him if he knew that attack was imminent because he can't face LV for more than 1 minute, so how DD was sure that LV was dead (or at least gone) before he sent Hagrid? He met Sirius there, Sirius came right after he checked on PP and he arrived after Hagrid, how was he late? (Mind, I am not accusing Sirius, because in my mind, Sitius is a  good boy, might be more of a boy then good, but still, he does not come as the one to give his best friend to LV).

This might have been discussed earlier, but I think we need full  canonical version of the entire scene.

Amey



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