FAQs: Lily died before James?

[mnaper2001]

No: HPFGUIDX 103123

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "vmonte" <vmonte at y...> wrote:
> 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

Ally:

But if it was reverse order from the most recent to the earliest, 
Lily should have come out of the wand before James, because she was 
killed after him.  It should have been Cedric, Lily, James if it was 
in reverse order, not Cedric, James, Lily.  Later versions of the 
book had Lily come out first, I believe.  Where are you getting this 
quote Gorda?  I think that's a misprint of what she said, maybe.