Three Defiances and Uncle Algie

[Yonna]

No: HPFGUIDX 112971

> Carol:
> I think it means either three times apiece or three times per 
> couple (for example, two for James and one for Lily would count 
> as the Potters defying him three times). Joining the Order would
> count as two defiances per couple (one per person). Frank's being
> an auror, possibly meeting one of Voldemort's most important DEs
> in battle, could easily constitute a third defiance for the 
> Longbottoms. Maybe James, though not an auror, also battled someone
> or simply refused an invitation to join the DEs. 


Yonna:
Well unless the canon is off a bit in the SS Lily and James were 
never asked. SS Am. edition, softback, pg. 55. (Hagrid talking to 
Harry in the hut by the sea):

"Now, yer mum an' dad were as good a witch an' wizard as I ever 
knew. Head boy an' girl at Hogwarts in their day! Suppose the 
myst'ry is why You-Know-Who never tried to get 'em on his side 
before...probably knew they were too close to Dumbledore ter want 
anythin' ter do with the Dark Side."

So to defy LV must have meant something more than to just say "no" 
to LV and jioning the DE, or Dark Side. Maybe it was that LV or one 
of his DE tried to make the Potters do something with the Imperious 
curse, and then they, just like HP in GoF, had the will to refuse. 
So that would be 1 for James and 1 for Lily. There would be two 
times, now all we need is a third.