Who was in the house?

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 115812


mhbobbin wrote:
> 
> If the male voice is someone other than James, it can't be a 
> painting or someone in the 2-way mirror, it has to be someone who's 
> physically there, and could have held off Voldy:
> 
> 'Lily, take Harry and go! It's him! Go! Run! I'll hold him off -'
> 
> There can be a painting/mirror/something else witness too, of 
> course, but the voice has to belong to someone who was there.
> 
> Dungrollin

Carol responds:
And who but James would say those words? We know that James put up a
brave fight and was killed by LV. (Note that if LV cast any spells in
that duel other than the AK, they didn't show up in the Priori
Incantatem, but that's another thread.)
 I'm not ruling out a portrait or other nonhuman witness (I lean
toward Snape's Dark Mark as a clue, myself), but I agree that the
voice was human and it seems likely that it really was James's. (As I
said in another post, it couldn't have been Lupin's. He was the
suspected spy. The question, for me, is why Sirius didn't go to him
instead of running after Peter. But that would have ruined the story.)

Carol