FAQs: Lily died before James?

[bigestbarda]

No: HPFGUIDX 103181

Gorda <gorda_ad at h...> wrote:
> JKR updated the FAQ section of her official site and this was one 
of the updates:
> 
> "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??!!!
> 
> Here's the test-only link:
> 
> http://www.jkrowling.com/textonly/faq_view.cfm?id=19


*calms down after checking site, running to kitchen, jumping up and 
down on the spot, squeaking excitedly, pointing at sister and 
screaming 'I *KNEW* it*
I knew it was significant when I first saw it, and it came back to 
me last week, when I checked the FAQ, that no-one's ever got it 
confirmed on which of the later corrections was correct. And... 
and... and.... I *knew* it. My first Potter thesis, that the first 
prior incantum order was correct (And much more interesting than 
the 'edited' version, I have to say) and that something important 
happened after Lily was murder-a-lised, is somewhat correct. And 
from JK's own (Well... not literally...) mouth. Aah, and more fuel 
the theory that Book 6's first chapter will deal with what happened 
in Godric's Hollow (And my own favourite, that there was a fifth 
person in the Hollow).
I love JK. I really do.
(I think the small child inside me that desires to be absolutely 
correct all the time has just keeled over and died with joy.)

"bigestbarda"