Not changing events at GH but keeping them the same. Was: Harry at GH

[vmonte]

No: HPFGUIDX 101051

Barbara wrote:

Looks like Harry's dad is indeed dead. Also, I don't think Harry went 
back and time and is the person who held off LV. Whoever held him off 
would be dead, as LV was trying to kill Harry and fulfill the 
prophesy, he probably wouldn't use stunners in that case. So 
therefore, whoever held him off would have died before Lily and would 
have come out of the wand after her. That person was James, IMO.

vmonte responds:

I also think that Lily and James are dead--both via Voldemort's wand.
But it doesn't necessarily mean that Harry couldn't have been there 
as well (or someone else for that matter). James could have been 
killed earlier that day, and the person that tells Lily to run may 
have escaped, or been killed via some other means.  I remember in the 
PoA book how Harry, Ron, and Hermione all used the expelleriamus 
spell to get at Snape's wand.  Because multiple people used the same 
spell Snape was propelled against the wall. Perhaps more than one 
person was casting spells that night and the total effect created the 
explosion that rocked the Potter house.