JKR Website: Confirmed- Lily died before James?

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> vmonte responds:
> 
> Do you think that her American editor was right all along?
> 
> Page 294,SS
> 
> "Yes, boy, your parents were brave.... I killed your father first, 
> and he put up a courageous fight...but your mother needn't have 
> died...she was trying to protect you.... Now give me the Stone, 
> unless you want her to have died in vain."   
> 
> vivian

Snow: 
Very good point! The only rebuttal I would have is on a quote from 
JKR in which she says that Voldemort lies:

Barnes and Noble Chat
Oct. 20, 2000

In Chamber of Secrets, Hagrid is supposed to have raised werewolf 
cubs under his bed. Are these the same kind of werewolves as 
Professor Lupin? No. Riddle was telling lies about Hagrid, just 
slandering him.
I guess we could question whether or not Voldemort lied about the 
statement to Harry you pointed out.  

My question is why JKR would wait four years to announce this? No one 
is that sleep deprived.