JKR Website: Confirmed- Lily died before James?

[Steve]

No: HPFGUIDX 103146

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "vmonte" <vmonte at y...> wrote:
> Gorda wrote:
> 
> Q: "At the end of 'Goblet of Fire', in which order should Harry's 
> parents have come out of the wand?
> 
> 
> A: James first, then Lily. That's how it appears in my original 
> manuscript ... my American editor thought that was the wrong way
> around, and he ...changed it without thinking,  then realised it had
> been right in the first place. ...."
> 
> 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.  ...edited...
> 
> vivian

asian_lovr2:

I just noticed this on JKR's site. When this post orginally appeared
here in this group, I ignored it because I assumed it was just another
re-hash of the old endless arguement that I had assumed had been
resolved long ago.

Based on this New Info-...

Analysis-
-Order of Deaths-
1st) Lily ...then
2nd) James ...then
3rd) Frank ...then
4th) and last ...Cedric

-In Reverse Order as the SHOULD have exited the Wand-
Cedric ...then
Frank ...then
James ...then 
finally ...Lily 

Lily was killed then James was killed, in reverse, James exited Lord-V
wand then Lily exited the wand. By JKR's own words, on her own
personal website, James came out before Lily.

This throws a monkey wrench into everything. 

Where the hell was James while Lily and Harry were being attacked? 

Who was yelling for Lily to grab Harry and run? 

Who, what, when, where, and how was Jame killed? 

Now I'm thoroughly confused. The Night at Godric's Hollow just became
a far far far more complex event than I have previously considered. I
dumbfounded at trying to contemplate the magnitude of it all. 

asian_lovr2/steve