Who was in the house?

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 116524


Dungrollin wrote:
> > > There can be a painting/mirror/something else witness too, of  >
course, but the voice has to belong to someone who was there.
> > 
I (Carol) responded:
> > And who but James would say those words? We know that James put up
a brave fight and was killed by LV. <snip>
> >  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
> 
> kmc adds:
> In POA, Sirius tells the group in the shack that he saw their 
> bodies.  I don't have my books so I can't reference the chapter.  
> James and Lily were killed at Gordic Hollow. <snip>
>

Carol responds:
I think you misunderstand me. I know that Sirius saw James's and
Lily's bodies and that they died at Godric's Hollow. I'm arguing that
it was James's voice that Harry heard in the Expecto Patronum lesson,
not Lupin's or Peter's.

My parenthetical question may have confused you because of the pronoun
"he," which refers to Lupin, not James. IOW, I was asking why Sirius
didn't go to Lupin for help, now that he knew Lupin was not the Secret
Keeper, instead of rashly running after Peter without consulting
anybody. But Sirius was just being himself, I guess, acting without
thinking. He *should* have gone to Lupin, but doing so would have
ruined the story.

Carol, with apologies for the unclear pronoun reference