New Clue - Graveyard at Hogwarts

[Steve]

No: HPFGUIDX 99688

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "vmonte" <vmonte at y...> wrote:
> bboy_mn wrote:
> 
> I give you an example: ... because the graveyard is near this other 
> wing of the castle ....'
 
 
> vmonte responds:
> 
> My guess would be that Harry's parents are buried there, but that 
> their headstones have different dates for the day they died. I think 
> James was probably killed a few days before GH, and that the male 
> voice (Harry hears during the dementor scene) yelling for Lily to
> run with Harry is not his father.   
> 
> vmonte

bboy_mn:

Lightening appears to have struck twice in one day. Once again someone
has given me a new insight into a old and often discussed subject. 

While I have considered them, I have generally discounted any theories
which speculated on who else may have been at Godric's Hollow on the
night Voldemort tried to kill Harry. 

Of course, many many people have speculated about who was there
accompanying Voldemort. Many have speculated as to who was their with
James and Lily. But I think very few have ever speculated about who
was there INSTEAD of James and why.

Perhaps, Lupin was there instead of James, or one or more members of
the Order who were standing guard. However, that leaves us to come up
with a reason for Jame to not be there, and if he was not there, is he
indeed now dead? If not dead, then were has he been all this time? If
someone else was there in his place, are they now dead? If they are 
not, then why hasn't their part been revealed before now? 

If James was indeed killed a few days before, that could have been a
justifiable reason for one or more members of the Order to have been
standing guard over Lily. But again, why, and why haven't we heard
about it before. If nothing else, we are cursed by Harry's limited
perspective.

While not without conflict, and generally going against the current
flow of the story, this theory could have some merit. 

I know I haven't added much, but the suggestion did make me think, and
I resist this idea much less than I resist the others.

bboy_mn