ANSWERS we've been waiting for! *SPOILER*

Why does James come out of the Voldemort's wand before Lily? He doesn't. In most editions of the book, that is. In the original, first edition printings of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, there is a mistake. That night in Godric's Hollow, James document.write(flat('eid')); died first, and then Lily document.write(flat('eid')); died protecting Harry from Voldemort. If the ghosts come out of the wand in Priori Incantatem in revese order, then Lily should come out before James. But, the order of the last two ghosts who emerged from Voldemort's wand was originally reversed: 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 appeared from the wand ... knew, because the man appearing was the one he'd thought of more than any 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. "Your mother's coming ..." he said quietly. "She wants to see you ... it document.write(flat('lliw')); will be all right ... hold on ... And she came ... first her head, then her body ... a young woman with long hair, the smoky, shadowy form of Lily Potter blossomed at the end of Voldemort's wand, fell to the ground, and straightened like her husband. She walked close to Harry, looking down at him, and she spoke in the same distant, echoing voice as the others, but quietly, so that Voldemort, his face now livid with fear as his victims prowled around him, could not hear ... (GoF First Editions pg 667/579) According to her official website, J.K. Rowling had originally written that Lily emerged from the wand first. However, her American editor, in the rush to edit the book, incorrectly pointed this out as an error, and Jo "changed it without thinking." Subsequent editions of the book corrected the mistake, and the text appears correctly, like this: 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 appeared from the wand ... knew, because the woman was the one he'd thought of more than any tonight ... The smoky shadow of a tall woman with long 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 mother. "Your father's coming ..." she said quietly. "Hold on for your father ... it document.write(flat('lliw')); will be all right ... hold on ... And he came ... first his head, then his body ... tall and untidy-haired like Harry, the smoky, shadowy form of James Potter blossomed at the end of Voldemort's wand, fell to the ground, and straightened like his wife. He walked close to Harry, looking down at him, and he spoke in the same distant, echoing voice as the others, but quietly, so that Voldemort, his face now livid with fear as his victims prowled around him, could not hear ...(GoF pg 667/579) It's not known if this "error" document.write(flat('lliw')); will make first editions of this book more valuable than other first editions in the future, but if you own one of these incorrect versions of the book, you own something special! Why are the US Editions of the books longer? They're not. While the earlier books differed slightly in particular words that were replaced for American readers (like changing "bin" to "garbage can" and "jumper" to "sweater") the US Editions of the books have, on the whole, the same amount of text as their British counterparts. So, why do the US books always have more pages? Very simple. Although the font size and style used in each of the countries is basically the same, the US book page size is different than the UK books. The US books have a physically bigger page size, and a text-area size of 4 1/4" by 5 3/4". The UK books have a physically smaller page size, but they have a smaller margin size than the US pages, and they have a very similar text-area size of 4" by 5 1/2". The big difference between the editions is the lines per page. The US editions have a maximum of 29 lines of text per page. But, a smaller between-line-spacing allows the UK editions to have a maximum of 33 lines per page. Therefore, the UK editions have many more words per page than the US editions. That's why the UK editions have less pages overall, because they have more words per page than the US editions. How did Neville get Gryffindor's sword? Right before he cuts off Nagini's head, how did Neville get Gryffindor's sword, if Griphook had it last? Don't feel bad if you don't know the answer to this question, because many fans missed this. As Harry is laying on the ground with everybody thinking he is document.write(flat('daed')); dead, Neville steps up to challenge Voldemort. Voldemort causes the Hogwarts sorting hat to fly out of the castle and into his hands. Explaining that it won't be needed anymore, he forces the hat onto Neville's head and causes it burst into flames. And then all hell breaks loose as the good guys attack. With this, Neville springs into action: In one swift, fluid motion, Neville broke free of the Body-Bind Curse upon him; the flaming hat fell off him and he drew from its depths something silver, with a glittering, rubied handle -- (DH pg 733/587) So, finally showing the bravery of a true Gryffindor, Neville pulled the sword out of the hat, exactly as Harry did in the Chamber of Secrets. But how did the sorting hat get the sword when Griphook had it last? The book does not say, but now that we've seen the hat do it twice, (Harry in the Chamber of Secrets and now Neville in document.write(flat('htaeD')); Deathly Hallows), we have to assume that the hat has the magical ability to conjure up Gryffindor's sword from wherever it is, whenever a true Gryffindor shows the courage required and has a need for it. Why is Teddy going to Hogwarts when he is 19? He's not. If the Epilogue happens 19 years after the story, why is Teddy Lupin seen on Platform 9 3/4? He would have been born shortly after Book 7 starts, which means he would have been 19 years old at this time, two tears older than the most senior Hogwarts students. The answer to this is simple. Teddy was not on Platform 9 3/4 that day to actually get on the train to Hogwarts. James says: "Our Teddy! Teddy Lupin! Snogging our Victoire! Our cousin! And I asked what he was doing --" "You interrupted them?" said Ginny. "Your are so like Ron --" "-- and he said he'd come to see her off!" (DH pg 756/605) And although it doesn't say it, we can also pretty easily guess from the clues about their cousin and her French name, but J.K. has confirmed, that Victoire is Bill and Fluer's daughter. Who did magic later in life? Nobody. In an interview many years ago, J.K. gave away the very intriguing clue that in a future book, someone would do magic later in life who had not done magic before. Since none of the previous books had anyone matching this description, most fans assumed this mystery would be answered in Book 7.

However, it was not. J.K. has admitted in recent interviews that she planned to have a character like this in the books eventually, but it turned out she could never work it into the story properly.

Oh wow thanxx..
I figured out some of these..
Even tho she didnt put it in the books i really wanted to know who would be the one doing the magic if she was going to put that..
Anways thanx once again!
😃

-Mahak-

Originally posted by: Abhi rocks...

Why does James come out of the Voldemort's wand before Lily?

He doesn't.

In most editions of the book, that is. In the original, first edition printings of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, there is a mistake. That night in Godric's Hollow, James document.write(flat('eid')); died first, and then Lily document.write(flat('eid')); died protecting Harry from Voldemort. If the ghosts come out of the wand in Priori Incantatem in revese order, then Lily should come out before James. But, the order of the last two ghosts who emerged from Voldemort's wand was originally reversed:

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 appeared from the wand ... knew, because the man appearing was the one he'd thought of more than any 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.

"Your mother's coming ..." he said quietly. "She wants to see you ... it document.write(flat('lliw')); will be all right ... hold on ...

And she came ... first her head, then her body ... a young woman with long hair, the smoky, shadowy form of Lily Potter blossomed at the end of Voldemort's wand, fell to the ground, and straightened like her husband. She walked close to Harry, looking down at him, and she spoke in the same distant, echoing voice as the others, but quietly, so that Voldemort, his face now livid with fear as his victims prowled around him, could not hear ... (GoF First Editions pg 667/579)

According to her official website, J.K. Rowling had originally written that Lily emerged from the wand first. However, her American editor, in the rush to edit the book, incorrectly pointed this out as an error, and Jo "changed it without thinking." Subsequent editions of the book corrected the mistake, and the text appears correctly, like this:

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 appeared from the wand ... knew, because the woman was the one he'd thought of more than any tonight ...

The smoky shadow of a tall woman with long 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 mother.

"Your father's coming ..." she said quietly. "Hold on for your father ... it document.write(flat('lliw')); will be all right ... hold on ...

And he came ... first his head, then his body ... tall and untidy-haired like Harry, the smoky, shadowy form of James Potter blossomed at the end of Voldemort's wand, fell to the ground, and straightened like his wife. He walked close to Harry, looking down at him, and he spoke in the same distant, echoing voice as the others, but quietly, so that Voldemort, his face now livid with fear as his victims prowled around him, could not hear ...(GoF pg 667/579)

It's not known if this "error" document.write(flat('lliw')); will make first editions of this book more valuable than other first editions in the future, but if you own one of these incorrect versions of the book, you own something special!

This was the only one which i did not know......Thanks for sharing

awwweee thnx a lot........ 😊

that was really good. i didn't know a few things and was confused about some other.. but my confusing is solved. Thanks.

But, I am still confused as to why snape was in slytherin..??

Thnx 4 all the ans!
-Aastha

yea...y was snape in slytherin...i no he was bitter but he was not pure blood (althoe we no that not all slytherins r pure, e.g voldemort). i think snape shud hv belonged to gryffindor, but maybe he was a coward then, until he fell in luv and his guilt gave him the bravery to spy on voldy...so dus that mean if snape put the sorting hat on his head now, he would be in gryffindor, cos he is definatly worthy of it 😕 😳 😛

thanx for the info thoe, really interesting to read!