FAQs: Lily died before James?

[Steve]

No: HPFGUIDX 103256

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "jdr0918" <jdr0918 at h...> wrote:
> 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 

asian_lovr2:

I'm not sure if you are serious or are attempting humor, but isn't it
a bit of circular logic to use the US edition to prove that the US
Editor is right? 

That's like saying all my post are right by virtue of the fact that I
wrote them... or something along that line.

The USA edition DOES NOT match the book as it was originally
published. JKR says the USA edition does not match her original
manuscript. The UK edition, which is the first publication, has James
coming out first. 

Side note: When the difference between the UK edtion and the US
edition was first noticed, people chastised the US editor for doing
such a sloppy and poorly written re-write of the scene. Also, many
people have held the opinion all along that the first publication
indeed contained the correct order, and that the USA edition change,
which eventually appear in the UK edition, always was and indeed
always will be a mistake. (You can all take a bow now.)

On her website, JKR said three times in three different ways that the
correct version is James comes out before Lily. She flat out says that
the authorization of the change to the US edition was a mistake. 

UK editions went from the original published order to matching the US
edition, and the most recent UK versions have been change back to the
original form. (...or, so I've been told.)

For details see -

Date:  Tue Jun 29, 2004  12:04 am
Subject:  Lily died before James? - No Room for Error.
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/message/103243

I think we have to accept it.

Steve/asian_lovr2