JKR Website: Confirmed- Lily died before James?

[Steve]

No: HPFGUIDX 103166

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "snow15145" <snow15145 at y...> wrote:
> 
> asian_lovr2/stevesteve:
> >snipped<
>  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? 
> > 
> > ...Godric's Hollow ... becamer more complex ...
> > 
> > asian_lovr2/stevesteve
 
> Snow:
> 
> I wrote something about this just last night in post 103024:
> 
> >snipped<
> 
> ...Sirius said in POA pg. 365 "I set out
> for your parents' house straight away. And when I saw their house,
> destroyed, and their bodies
"
> 
> If there were two bodies that Sirius assumed to be the Potters and
> Voldemort lost his body with the rebounded AK, shouldn't there have
> been three bodies? Lily and James are supposedly both killed at GH
> and Voldemort was ripped from his body there so which body is
> missing?


asian_lovr2:

Yes, I did read that, but you are assuming that 'thier bodies' is an
all inclusive statement. That is, that it totally defines the scene,
when in reality it may have only been referring to one aspect of the
scene.

Sirius starts by referring to 'your parents' which rightfully leads us
to assume that 'their bodies' is reserved for 'Lily and James',
Harry's parents, and indeed that may have been the only part of the
scene that Sirius was interested in at the time, but it doesn't
exclude the presents of more bodies. By the same token, it doesn't
demand that more bodies are present.

Given the uncertainty in my mind, I can't give much weight to that
statement. I'm not say it doesn't have weight, only that I personally
can't find a way to give deeper meaning to it. ...and I'm usually
pretty good at doing that.

Just a thought.

Steve/asian_lovr2