The "truth", Moody clues, James or Lily first, CoS

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No: HPFGUIDX 103679

<Bren> In light of learning some new facts, the new title for Book 
>6, "The Truth" (which has been buried under all the Half-Blood-
>Prince talk and 'Priori Incantatum: James-then-Lily or not' debate --
>I don't think anyone has discussed yet?) all the sirius & crazy 
>theories, etc etc... 

Christina: Okay, I'm going to admit that I don't get this. Can you 
explain about "The Truth" comment? If you already have never mind, 
I'm sure I'll find it in a digest. 

As far as clues to Moody goes, I could see them after re-reading GoF 
(which I finished last night, in tears. It's my favorite), but the 
first time through I was surprised. I think that was the point, 
though. Moody was "the Auror who cried wolf" one too many times so 
everyone thought that *this* time was just another false alarm. I am 
glad, though, that this wasn't the *real* Moody and I would like to 
see the real Moody teach DADA and see what he's really like. I don't 
understand why Fake!Moody taught Harry all that cool stuff though 
when he was the bad guy. 

I believe that James was killed first, downstairs, while trying to 
keep Lily and Harry safe. As far as the voice Harry hears in PoA it 
says in GoF that Harry heard his Dad tell Lily to run with Harry. Now 
that could be Harry's *assumption* that JKR left in the book to throw 
us off, but I believe it was James. 

Out of all the books it seems that CoS is the *odd one out*. It does 
have VM in it but as a memory in a diary, a young Tom Riddle. I'm 
sure this means something and will tie together things in future 
books, but I'm not really sure I know right now what CoS was supposed 
to tell the readers. What new information came to light in CoS? Harry 
didn't have to fight present day VM in this one - he fought the 
basilisk and destroyed the diary - and Memory!Tom - but what else did 
we really discover that are supposed to be clues? Maybe I'm just 
dense because I didn't see anything. 

Christina in GA - who deleted several digests and started over