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What Really Happened On the night James and Lily Died? "It was me what
rescued Harry from Lily an' James's house after they was killed! Jus' got
him outta the ruins, poor little thing, with a great slash across his forehead,
'an his parents dead...an' Sirius Black turns up, on that flying' motorbike
he used to ride. Never occurred to me what he was doin' there..."
The page that used to be here was written right after GF came out. At that time there was a lot of speculation in the fan community about what JKR was hinting at with the apparent inconsistencies in the text. After she had surprised us with Scabbers' true identity and with so many other things, we were trying to figure out what these latest clues was all about. But then the later versions of the book were corrected and she even emailed and told fans that no, Lily came first. This didn't answer all our concerns, but it did bring us back to earth a little. There are actually errors all through GF, and instead of clues, that's what they were: errors. The page remained on the Lexicon, however, and I just added a disclaimer at the top to the effect that what was written below wasn't intended to be anything other than a discussion of an error in the book. But so many people have written to let me know that I have it all wrong--sometimes getting downright rude about it--that I've rewritten the page. The fact of the matter is, there are still a lot of mysteries left about that whole event in 1981, and so I've refocused the page to list them. The original page is still interesting, I suppose, from the standpoint that it gives you a glimpse of what things were like in July, 2000. It's always been exciting to be a Harry Potter fan, but it was particularly fun then. That was before there were Harry Potter movies or coloring books or action figures or trading card games to confuse things. There were only books, and we were all giddy with the pleasure of discovering the amazing world JKR had created. She was doling details out a little bit at a time in interviews after the release of GF, and we adult fans were have a ball trying to figure it all out. Okay, so we've all settled down a little since then. But you know what? It's still just as exciting to be a Harry Potter fan. And there are still plenty of mysteries to be solved, plenty of things we haven't figured out yet. Thanks to all of you who have written and commented. Steve |