Just one little bitty question

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No: HPFGUIDX 177060

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "dreadr" <dreadr at ...> wrote:
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> I would also like to know more about Lily and James.  In the first 
book 
> Hagrid is telling Harry that Lily and James were Head Boy and Girl in 
> their day.  I find it hard ro reconcile this picture of James with 
the 
> later images that we see of him -- Lily maybe but James?  Did he have 
a 
> sudden brain transplant after his O.W.L.S.?
> 
> Lupin was the prefect because James and Sirius stayed in too much 
> trouble -- Pettigrew obviously wasn't prefect material.  I would love 
> to know how this totally turned around in one year -- or did Hagrid 
> just have his facts mixed up?
> 
> debbie

I've speculated that James had a trauma after his O.W.L.S year which 
prompted him to mature rather quickly. Since Harry has no grandparents 
or relatives other than the Dursleys, (very unusual given that James 
and Lily were such very young parents) I guessed that James' Mum and 
Dad at least, became victims of Voldemort. Such traumatic grief could 
maybe produce a bit of empathy in the arrogant prat that James was at 
that stage and also perhaps evoke Lily's compassionate nature. Of 
course we don't know what happened to Lily's parents either but they 
were clearly also both off the scene by the time Lily was in her 
twenties. But that's another mysterty. JKR simply wanted an orphened 
hero and wiped out a whole generation above his parents to keep it 
neater for herself. In RL it is highly unlikely that two sets of middle 
aged parents would be dead by the time their grandson is 1 year old. So 
that started me thinking maybe James' parents died while he was still 
at school, though they were at least alive long enough to be  
accomodating to Sirius when he ran away from home.  

Mercia 
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