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

[hickengruendler]

No: HPFGUIDX 142816

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Ceridwen" <ceridwennight at h...> 
wrote:
 
> 
> Ceridwen:
> But Lily would have had a reason to bring James home besides having 
a 
> friend from school over for a holiday - she married him.  She would 
> have wanted to introduce him to her parents, they would have talked 
> (about DADA class among other things?)during his stay, and Petunia 
> overheard them.

Hickengruendler:

I totally agree with you. That's why I don't think that it's James. 
It makes absolute sense for him to be it, and if he's the done, who 
spoke with Lily, than why wouldn't JKR just say. "Petunia overheard a 
conversation between Harry's parents..." or something like that. 
Instead JKR specifically mentioned that Petunia overheard Lily 
talking with someone, not mentioning the name. That suggests to me, 
that it is not the most obvious candidate, who even was mentioned in 
the book. Why should JKR make that a secret, if the speaker was 
James? By the way, I think this argument, is also partly true for 
Remus and Sirius. Why make a secret out of it, that Lily had some 
close contact with them, even if it was at her own house? I can not 
see, what it would offer for the storyline.
 
I think it is Snape, and that this is the reason, why Severus changed 
sides. He still had some feelings for Lily (even if it was simply a 
very strange sort of friendship, because she defended him), and 
didn't want anything to happen to her. But as alternative candidates, 
I won't rule out Wormtail or Regulus.

Hickengruendler