FAQs: Lily died before James?

[jdr0918]

No: HPFGUIDX 103253

The Sergeant Majorette says:

In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "everybody in the world" wrote 
about how James could have died before Lily, like maybe PP did it 
with LV's wand, and yadda yadda...

Well I must wave the flag here as a patriotic American and point to 
page 667 of my US paperback:
"The shadow of Bertha Jorkins surveyed the battle before her with 
wide eyes...
And now another head was emerging... and Harry, his arms shaking 
madly now, looked back into the ghostly face of his mother.
'Your father's coming...' she said quietly. 'Hold on for your 
father...'
And he came... tall and untidy-haired like Harry..."

So whatever went down at GH, the last one out of the wand, and thus 
the first to die, was James. Otherwise, James would have come out 
first and said quietly, "Your mother's coming... Hold on for your 
mother..."

So the US editor was right and JKR's either wrong or messing with you 
people again.

--JDR (immune to those head games because she takes what she reads at 
face value, glides right over inconsistencies, and, when she gets an 
outlandish theory in her head, writes a fanfic.)