Grown Harry at GH?
Christina in GA
clr1971 at alltel.net
Sat Jun 12 02:55:03 UTC 2004
No: HPFGUIDX 100980
I re-read the section in PoA where Harry first hears his dad's voice.
(PoA p.240, US) ...then came a new voice, a man's voice, shouting,
panicking-- "Lily, take Harry and go! It's him! Go! Run! I'll hold him
off--" The sounds of someone stumbling from a room -- a door bursting
open -- a cackle of high-pitched laughter--"
Harry tells Lupin this and his reply - "You heard James?" said Lupin in a
strange voice.
Now, when I read this I can see this scene in my head. I know in one of the
movies we saw Lily in front of baby Harry in the crib and that may be
affecting this thought, but I am seeing Lily, James and baby Harry in their
home. Somehow James gets a warning that LV is coming - maybe by a floo
message or he hears something outside. He tells her to go, he's here, then
he stays in the living room. The door bursts open, there is LV, laughing.
James tries a stunning spell or two then LV does the AV curse and there is a
flash of green light. LV follows Lily into another room where she is trying
to protect Harry. We know he's after Harry because he tells her to stand
aside and she won't, she even begs LV to take her and kill her instead (PoA,
p 179, US). LV does the AV curse on her as well and there is another burst
of green light, the curse kills Lily but backfires, leaving baby Harry
marked with his scar and LV as vapor.
Now, right after Lupin asks if Harry has heard James Harry asks if they knew
each other in school. Lupin tells them he did but then wants to stop the
lesson for that night. What bothered Lupin about Harry asking that question?
Am I reading too much into it?
Now after reading the theory of Grown Harry being there I'm not sure if that
male voice was really James as I envisioned. I don't know that it was Grown
Harry, I don't know that I believe that. But since Lupin said "You heard
James?" in a strange voice I am wondering if it could have been someone else
or was Lupin just bothered that Harry, his best friend's son, was hearing
the voices of his parents the night they were killed?
We do know that Harry's parents are dead - that is a fact based on GoF, but
maybe in book 6 we'll find out if it was James that Harry heard.
Christina in GA
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