The FAQ says "Lily first"

[garyfredogal at hotmail.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 104545

Carol:
> In other words, this debate shouldn't even be occurring because 
> 1) the FAQ is right, and 2) the error by the American editor has 
> been corrected in recent reprints of the book. Please check out
> her official site if you still think that "James first" is 
> correct.


Tina:

Since there seems to be all this controversy over who comes out of 
the wand and who died first, I have to object to the Lily first 
theory. I have just reread my copy of SS and on US Version pg 294 it 
reads:

"How touching..."it hissed. "I always value bravery...Yes, boy, your 
parents were brave...I killed your father first, and he put up a 
courageous fight...but your mother needn't have died...she was 
trying to protect you...Now give me the Stone unless you want her to 
have died in vain."

Since SS is the same as PS only without some of the British terms 
that are unfamiliar to some, I am sure that would more than likely 
be the reason why the editor switched it around in book 5 is so it 
matched the above paragraph. 

This is nothing against Jo, I am sure that originally it was one way 
and she changed her mind somewhere in the middle of writing and 
failed to change the beginning. It happens quite often.