James or Lilly killed first?

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 97902

> Owlery2003:
> > I'm sure this has been covered, but please refresh my recollection. 
> I thought that James was killed by LV first, then Voldie went to AK 
> Harry, but Lilly got in the way and then he killed her. 
> 
> Geoff:
> This has been corrected and has been acknowledged as a Flint I 
> believe.
> 
LV killed Lily because she wouldn't stand aside and let him kill
Harry. (She *wanted* to be killed, as we've discussed repeatedly in
the self-sacrifice threads.) He couldn't have gotten to her if James
were still alive and fighting to protect her and Harry. James had to
have died first, presumably outside the house. The flint was the scene
where James comes out of the wand first. Interesting that you have
both versions!

As I said in another post, there's another, smaller version of the
flint still uncorrected in my Scholastic edition of GoF. When Harry is
telling Sirius and Dumbldore about the events in the graveyard, his
father is mentioned before his mother. I'd look up the page number,
but it's 1:47 in the morning and besides, you have a different edition.

Carol, who is not sleepy despite the hour and is going to have to take
some Benadryl