[HPforGrownups] Re: FAQs: Lily died before James?

[Alina]

No: HPFGUIDX 103257

> 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

Ok. the UK and Canadian editions had James appearing before Lily, indicating
that she died first, which contradicted the assumption of events at GH. Then
Rowling said that her U.S. editor spotted an error and Lily was actually
supposed to come first.

Now, on her website, she says that she was very tired at the time her U.S.
editor contacted her and he's usually good at noticing small errors, so she
went ahead and agreed with him without thinking and it was actually right
the first time around.

SO, now JKR is claiming that James really did come out first, meaning Lily
died first.

See, Rowling clearly states that the US editor was wrong, when she's playing
headgames it's with vague wording, I don't think we've caught her lying yet.

Playing headgames is one thing, but I don't think she would outright lie to
her fans.

Alina.