FAQs: Lily died before James?

[vmonte]

No: HPFGUIDX 103113

Gorda wrote:

"At the end of 'Goblet of Fire', in which order should Harry's 
parents have come
out of the
wand?


James first, then Lily. That's how it appears in my original 
manuscript but we were under enormous pressure to edit it very fast 
and my American editor thought that was the wrong way around, and he 
is so good at catching small errors I changed it without thinking, 
then realised it had been right in the first place. We were all very 
sleep-deprived at the time."

So, Lily was killed before James? James was NOT at GH, as we have been
speculating for a while? What to make of this??!!!

vmonte responds:

I'm confused. How does your comments change the order of the parents 
deaths?  Voldemort's wand shows the victims of his spells in reverse 
order.  From most recent attack to the earliest.  James was killed 
before Lily.  He comes out of the wand first, then Lily who was 
killed after.  (At least that is all the victims we know of since H & 
V's wands broke connection after Lily came out.)   

vivian