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Post by Priori Incantatem on Jul 23, 2007 17:44:10 GMT -5
This has been bothering me since the first time I read book four, and I'm not sure whether it's been explained or not, since I've never really talked on an HP fansite before this one.
When Harry and Voldemort's wands connected during Priori Incantatem Voldemort's victims started coming out in reverse order from when they died: Cedric, the old man, Bertha, James and Lily.
Why did Lily come out after James? She died after he did, making her death more recent, meaning that she should have come out before James did, going in reverse order.
Was this simply a mistake on JK's part, or was some sort of explanation I'm missing?
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Post by writ3rgirl on Jul 23, 2007 17:48:43 GMT -5
oh, btw- this is me asking. The site randomly logged me out and I didn't notice... when it was asking for a name I thought it was asking for a name of the topic. lol.
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Post by moogle on Jul 23, 2007 17:54:50 GMT -5
haha, must have run out of time on your thing.
I thought that Lily comes out before James? Doesn't she say "your father's coming"? Maybe I need to re-read.
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Post by writ3rgirl on Jul 23, 2007 18:15:01 GMT -5
no, it goes the opposite way- James comes out and says "your mother's coming." lol, unless the American editors just messed it up for us.
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Post by moogle on Jul 23, 2007 18:20:45 GMT -5
I shall go check, then we can make sure, lol.
Edit: well, I just checked my edition of GoF, and indeed Lily comes out first. Guess the American editors did just screw it up. *shrugs*
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Post by writ3rgirl on Jul 23, 2007 18:42:33 GMT -5
seriously???
My book:
And now another head was emerging from the tip of Voldemort's wand... and Harry knew when he saw it who it would be... he knew as though he had expected it from the moment when Cedric had appeared from the wand... knew, because the man appearing was the one he'd thought of more than any other tonight...
The smoky shadow of a tall man with untidy hair fell to the ground as Bertha had done, straightened up, and looked at him... and Harry, his arms shaking madly now, looked back into the ghostly face of his father.
"You're mother's coming..." he said quietly. "She wants to see you... it will be all right... hold on..."
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Post by moogle on Jul 23, 2007 18:47:12 GMT -5
OH wow! Mine is the same wording but it is Lily who comes out. How strange!!
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Post by Marquis Black on Jul 23, 2007 19:02:43 GMT -5
It's been officially stated (I think) that the American version reversed the order by accident. The British version has the correct order: Lily, then James.
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Post by writ3rgirl on Jul 23, 2007 19:09:39 GMT -5
eugh... stupid scholastic, reprinting it wrong.
You know, I was actually thinking that there was going to be a reason behind it- like what we thought had happened that day really hadn't or something. James dodged out of the way of Voldemort's attack somehow and survived until later... *shrug*
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Post by moogle on Jul 23, 2007 19:18:00 GMT -5
haha, it sucks when things are just mistakes.
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Post by Dominus Tenebrarum Sum on Jul 23, 2007 19:57:10 GMT -5
I think JKR wrote what happened... gr... lemme find it. Nooooo oooooooo!!! HP-lexicon just had an internal server error.... -weeps- |
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Post by writ3rgirl on Jul 24, 2007 11:31:39 GMT -5
lol, thanks anyway. I'll try to look it up later.
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Post by realmer06 on Jul 25, 2007 11:59:19 GMT -5
The way I understand it (because it was a big question right after GoF came out), was that in all first runs of the book, US and UK, it had James coming out first because that's how JK wrote it. Then, when the mistake was discovered, she went back and fixed it for the next printings of the books, having Lily come out first.
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Post by writ3rgirl on Jul 25, 2007 12:25:36 GMT -5
oh, well that actually does make me feel better. Fixing a mistake is a lot more sensible than accidentally messing up something that was right in the first place. And I did get GoF the first day it came out, so that'd work.
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Post by moogle on Jul 25, 2007 18:06:40 GMT -5
I got GoF long after, so I guess that does make sense. I was one of these people who had to reserve at the library, lol.
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