Lily's friends

[Amon Rê]

Dunno I'm definitely going to have to re-read AGAIN...This forum (theories specifically) has really got me thinking and made me want to go through them again and see if I can't find anymore evidence for some of these other theories you know

[Athena Appleton]

yeah, my husband can't figure out how I've managed to read the HP books as many times as I have (bet I've got all y'all beat! ). Now, I keep them next to the computer to use as reference books (I can actually remember in which book in which chapter almost every conversation being talked about is in... it's pathetic.

[Amon Rê]

Dunno, I've read the original 4 about 15 times each... I kept re-reading them in hopes the fifth would come out faster

[Alice I]

THANK GOD!
Finally a soul mate!
My husband just went to bed shaking his head at me (because I am on this fourm again) and handed me an article in today's paper about Harry Potter or actually JKR that I already knew about thanks in part to you all.

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Athena wrote:

yeah, my husband can't figure out how I've managed to read the HP books as many times as I have (bet I've got all y'all beat! ). Now, I keep them next to the computer to use as reference books (I can actually remember in which book in which chapter almost every conversation being talked about is in... it's pathetic.

I completely agree with Athena about Lilly. I hope I don't get in trouble for this but her is my throey about Lilly. It is a small excerpt from the book I am writing:
Madam Tosh sat down on the ground in front of Harry. “You can not wish away who you are. You are the only person who has ever defied the Dark Lord and lived not once but four times and that is no accident. Harry; of all the souls that I have treated through the years, yours is the strongest and most resilient I have come across, save one.” Harry looked up at her “Who?” Madam Tosh looked into Harry’s green eyes, his mother’s eyes and replied “Lilly Potter.” Harry’s eyes opened wide “You knew my mother?” “I knew both of your parents Harry. I was their healer. Let me think; what is the muggle word?” She thought for a minute “I was your mother’s midwife.” Harry stared at her unbelieving. “Yes Harry; I delivered you and you have been a fighter from the moment you entered this world as was Lilly. I see so much of her in you. You do have the strength to face your destiny; your mother gave you that strength. When she died to save you, giving you protection from Voldemort, it is possible that she transferred more to you than just that protection.” Harry’s head was spinning. This healer had been there at his birth and had known his parents. What could his mother have transferred to him in her death? “I don’t understand what you are saying about my mum.”
“I have wondered from the time you came to St. Mungos if Voldemort really had killed Lilly.” Harry’s head snapped up abruptly and he looked at Madam Tosh. “As I said; I see so much of her in you and I wonder if it is possible that she transferred her spirit; her soul if you will, to you in the moment that her body died. When I look into your eyes I see Lilly. It may just be wishful thinking on my part, for Lilly was a very close friend to me, but I have felt her in you. Your delivery was not easy for Lilly and she nearly died when you were born. When she saw you for the first time however I felt a power surface in her unlike anything I had ever felt before or since; until I met you again. Both of your parents were remarkable people but your mother was the strongest and purest spirit I have ever known. Harry your heart is as true as hers, your spirit as pure so I know without even the remotest doubt that you will not only fulfill your destiny but find love and peace in your life that will last.” Harry couldn’t believe what he had heard. The thought that his mother’s soul may actually resided inside of him was outrageous but he had seen and heard odder things in the six years he had been a part of the wizarding world. “I have given you an awful lot to think about Harry. I will be staying here at the castle through the weekend but I can see that you need some time to process all of this.” She reached out purposefully and held his shoulders and he didn’t flinch away from her. She looked deeply into his eyes and said “Trust yourself Harry, trust your friends.” Harry looked at her and remembered that Professor Dumbledore had said the very same things to him that morning.

Lilly IS a good guy!

[pandora315]

About what year Lily was in and if she and James where in the same year, when Harry talks to Lupin and Sirius about Lily and James Lupin says that "She started going out with him in seventh year". If they weren't all in the same year wouldn't they have said in his seventh year or in our seventh year?

[Athena Appleton]

I would think they'd be talking about his seventh year, because it was also their seventh year... I don't, by the way, really think one way or the other about him and Lily being in the same year...

When I talk about my sister and her husband (they met and dated in high school, got married after college), if I say "She met him as a freshman" that would mean she met him when she was a freshman, he was a sophomore.

[Amon Rê]

I don't think it'll make that big of a deal if they are only like a year or two a part, look at Harry's friends, the majority are in his year, but there are a few in the year above and a few in the year below...I mean it would be interesting to know, but we really can't rule anyone out who was at Hogwarts at the same time as James and Lily...

[Athena Appleton]

yeah, didn't say i thought it was important... just curious...

Alice, honey, I'm sorry... I couldn't concentrate and read the whole bit you wrote... I'll get back to it later.