"That awful boy" (Was: Comparing Lupin and Harry )

[hickengruendler]

No: HPFGUIDX 142810

  
> Carol responds:
> Why not go with the obvious: *James* as the "awful boy"? 

Hickengruendler:

I think mostly because of this quote: 

"David Moulds for the News of the World - How does Aunt Petunia know 
about dementors and all the other magical facts she knows?

JK Rowling: Another very good question. She overheard a conversation, 
that is all I am going to say. She overheard conversation. The answer 
is in the beginning of Phoenix, she said she overheard Lily being 
told about them basically.

Is that true?

JK Rowling: Yes. The reason I am hesitant is because there is more to 
it than that. As I think you suspect. Correctly, but I don't want to 
say what else there is because it relates to book 7."
 
>From here: http://www.quick-quote-quill.org/articles/2005/0705-
edinburgh-ITVcubreporters.htm

Note that she openly admitted that Petunia overheard Lily, but did 
not say with whom Lily spoke, even though Harry automatically assumed 
in the book that Petunia spoke about his parents. This seems a big 
hint to me, that the person, with whom Lily spoke, is not James.
 
Hickengruendler