Who will tell Harry what happened? (WAS:Re: Question1 - Godrics Hollow)

[vmonte]

No: HPFGUIDX 132157

Inge wrote:

Quoting POA (Bloomsbury) p. 178 - Harry and Lupin after yet another
Patronus-practice:

2) >>"'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...'
>>SNIP<<
"'You heard James?' said Lupin, in a strange voice. 'Yeah... Why - you
didn't know my dad, did you?' 'I - I did, as a matter of fact,' said
Lupin. 'We were friends at Hogwarts. Listen Harry - perhaps we should
leave it here for tonight....' SNIP<<

Once again - Lupin seems surprised to learn that Harry heard his dad -
as if it shouldn't be possible. Lupin knows more than he wants Harry 
to know. Why does Lupin start to stutter when he talks about James? 
Why does he suddenly want to end the Patronus-lesson when he learns 
about Harry hearing James?


vmonte responds:
This last scene has come up in discussion several times on this site. 
There are some fans that believe that Lupin is ESE (ever so evil) 
because of it.

I'm not sure that Lupin is evil but I do get the impression that 
something is not quite right with Harry's idea of what he thinks he 
hears.

First of all, Harry hears a man's voice and automatically assumes 
that the voice is of his dad. (In PoA he assumed he saw his father 
across the lake but it turned out to be himself via time travel.)

Second, in the SS movie JKR approved an added scene that showed a 
flash back to what happened to Lily at GH but she told the director 
to omit James from the scene.

Third, in PoA the movie, Harry is supposed to hear a man's voice 
during the dementor scene but this voice is not heard. You only hear 
Lily screaming. It makes me wonder if this voice is not heard for a 
reason. Is someone trying to hide the identity of that voice?

Was James dead already? Does the voice belong to Snape? Lupin? Or 
someone else?

Vivian