New Clue - Graveyard at Hogwarts

[vmonte]

No: HPFGUIDX 99687

kateydidnt2002 wrote:

But more to the point-why would this be an important development or
important fact for books 6 and 7? It seems to me that this
information, both there existing a graveyard and his parents
possibly being buried in it (whether or not they died the same day),
would only be important as another fact that Harry might be
interested in knowing but has not been told. Would it have any other
significance to the plot?


vmonte responds:

There is no cannon to support this theory. All I have is Lupin's
reaction after Harry tells him that he heard his father's voice at
GH.

PoA, U.S. paperback version, p 240-241:
"I heard my dad," Harry mumbled. "That's the first time I've ever
heard him -- he tried to take on Voldemort himself, to give my mum
time to run for it..." (This is the first time Harry has heard his
father's voice--so he automatically assumes the voice is him.)

"You heard James?" said Lupin in a strange voice.

Harry then asks Lupin if he knew his father at school. 

"I -- I did, as a matter of fact," said Lupin.  "We were friends at 
Hogwarts..."  
Lupin then changes the subject back to the patronus charm.

The other reason I'm suspicious is that during the filming of SS I
read somewhere(?) that JKR asked that James not be shown during the
flash back scene that shows Lily being killed at GH. I do not have a 
link to prove this as fact, but maybe someone else remembers, or 
knows, where this thought originates from.

I think it would be significant to the plot to realize that someone 
other than James was at GH that night.  
 
vmonte