I believe that there is a possibility for harry`s parents to come back.

In the first book harry and ron look in to the mirror of erised.
Ron sees himself quidditch player and captain plus a good head boy position.
Until now his desires are going quite well.javascript:emoticon(':D')
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So dont you think harry`s could go well the same?

Harry's parietns are dead...Jk mentioned that Lila was killed....but never mentioned anything about James...Or have i missed something...Chance of harry's parients being dead : 99.9% , sorry to say.

what harry and ron saw in the mirror was to diffrents things.what ron saw could happend, he already won the Quidditch cup and thats why they won the hpuse cup, so, maybe ron will be a headboy. JK rowling said on mugglenet.com tht you can become a head boy without being a prefect. but Harry's parents are dead, and dumledore said that you cannot awake someone from the dead.

I dunno... I suppose they could come back... I'm sure they're dead but in the wizarding world, it seems that death is not final. Headless Nick becomes a ghost, Phineas helped in a form of portrait, I'm sure the Fat Lady is not longer alive either.

We read in GoF, at the graveyard scene, Harry's parent came back, although it is in a form of smoky shadow... but still she was able to talk to Harry as if she's not dead.

His parents are dead but after that scene, I'm pretty much sure that they will come back again... in other form... I dunno... I just have a feeling they would.... in a time when we least expect it...

"Order of the Phoenix" spoilers ahead...

I think Harry's parents are probably good and dead. While it is nice to think that Lily and James will run out from behind the veil and save Harry's life one of these days, I just don't think that the idea is plausible. Like I've said before with regard to Sirius, were a dead person who was close to Harry to come back, it would make the whole thing of death seem less permanent. As we already know from Harry's experience with Cedric, the thestrals, etc., learning to cope with death is an important theme of the books. I think that Harry's parents re-appearing in a full, living state would conflict with the basic premise of the series.

There is also plenty of magically-based evidence that they are indeed dead which I could go into if you like..... Why would Harry have lived through Voldemort's Avada Kedavra curse as a child if his mother were not truly dead? Why would his parents come out of Voldemort's wand in the exact same form as Cedric in the Priori Incantatem scene if they were not in fact dead? There's a lot of other compelling evidence that Lily and James are physically dead as well.

Though, as Dumbledore said, "the ones we loved never truly leave us."

It has already been proven that although they are dead, Lily, James, and Sirius can still help Harry. Lily and James came back via Priori Incantatem in the graveyard and shielded him from Voldemort at the end of "Goblet of Fire." We know that there are portraits, ghosts, and other means of communicating with a form of the dead from "Order of the Phoenix." I doubt that Lily and James's presence is gone from the books (if anything, their sacrifice will continue to guide Harry's actions and moral behavior as he deals with the new responsibility of killing Voldemort throughout the final two books), but I don't think they will come back in any physical form.

I do hope, however, that Ron gets everything he wanted back in first year... give one of the boys a happy ending at least, J.K. Rowling...

they are dead! but as Ghost maybe!

Dumbledore also said at some point, can´t remember which book, that death is permanent even in the wizarding world. And in GoF, he says that no spell can reawaken the death. Moody(Barty Crouch Jr.) says: 'And there´s n o counter-curse, there´s no blocking it'. So I really believe they´re dead. Besides, if they were to come back as ghosts, do you think they would wait over 15 years???And I don´t really think Lilyt and James Potter were afraid of death, and Nick says that´s how a ghost appears

Of course, the image in the Mirror of Erised could come true. Harry could die at the end of the series and be reunited with his parents. Hopefully this won't happen.

I think that it would be too ch-EZ (cheesey in a cool spelling ) if Ron had everything come true. I think Ron will be prefect and quidditch co-captain.

Anyway, I think we will never see a more live James and Lily (in terms of their ability to interact with Harry) than during the Priori Incantatem scene at the end of Goblet of Fire.

P.S. I'm going CRAZEE waiting for July 16.

(and I miss Sirius too)

Jk, Please just don't take my Lupin from me. Leave us with one Marauder (Ratboy doesn't count either )

I am absolutely sure that they won`t come back. Dumbledore said in one book, can recall wich one, that "No spell can rewakan the death,Harry". And if they will come back, why now and why not earlier?
I am praying for jk to get sirius back ) but i really doubt that the potters will come into play again..

i honestly do not think that harrys parents will come back. they have been dead for over ten years and i dont think there just going to pop up like daisys

That's an interesting thought; however I don't think they will come back. It is interesting to think that something we thought unlikely to happen (Ron's vision in the mirror) is coming true and to think that maybe Harry's could, as well. Sadly, I doubt if there is any way Lilly and James could come back in solid human form. Maybe there is some way he could talk to them or see them or something.

I think that Lily and James may come back but in a different form because in the GoF they were sort of like a smokey kind of figure but they still helped Harry escape from Voldemort. and with the mirror of erised, i hope that they stuff ron saw in it comes true even though the part with winning the quidditch cup came true but i think that maybe harry may be united with his parents (dead) but let's not hope on that. and I hope that JK will bring back Sirius because he could really help Harry in sooooo many ways.



*Bring Sirius Back!*



*Sirius*

I think that there is no chance watsoever of lily and james ever coming back, unless they were ghosts... which i dont think happened.

it would be soooooooooooo cool if james and lily come back. that would be so unsuspected and random, however i seriously doubt that the potters will come to live agin. maybe they could come back as ghosts or portrat things but not liveing, breathing humans. Its more likely that siris and dumboldor will come back (and i really hope they do )

p.s why is there such a huge gap between the posts, the first one is from january 2005 and the next is january 2007. weired

I am 100 percent positive that James and Lily are not coming back. They are definately dead, and from what I know, a wizard/witch can't come back to life once he/she dies. They've been gone for about 16 years, and they can't exactly choose all of a sudden to arrive as ghosts back into the world. And you've heard what Nearly-headless Nick said, most wizards don't chose to be ghosts unless they are afraid of death... or something along those lines.

I think harrys parents will not come back. I do believe that harry has a special place in his heart for his parents, but we can all desire something and not have that desire fullfilled.

yes! i compleatly believe that harry's parents may come back because in book four the "spirits" of LV's victems came back, and thats when LV and harrys wands connected, but what would happen if one wand is deystroyed by it's brother? i believe priori incententem on a major scale!

I don't think that Harry's parents are coming back. JKR has said, through Dumbledore, that there is no spell to bring back the dead. And they can't come back as ghosts because they would have had to do that when the were first killed 16 years ago. As for the theory about prior incententem, they didn't really come back there just a memory did for a few moments, and as soon as the connection was broken they went away. Well if one of the brother wands broke wouldn't the connection be broken permenently?

well you know this topic is an interesti ng topic however i dont believe that this is going to happen why becasue like dd said that he is dead so lets just leav eit at that
seachell

I'm sure Harry's parents wont come back (although Jk does have a knack of shocking us) i just think that there might be a possible realative out there some where who is in hiding and everyone thinks is dead. This person could come to Harry's aid and tell him things about his parents.
i know this isnt very likely but im sure there is no way james and lily are still alive

Myabe he will see their ghosts whe he goes to Godrics Hollow just a thought..

Yea I agree Harry's parents are out of the pic. but there's always the chance of some long lost relative, his mom had another sister besides Petunia or something? That's definitely a posibility.

JKR has said that she very deliberately left Harry alone in the books, having no one from his family except the Dursleys. It's possible that was smoke, but it didnt seem so. The Potters having made an intervening kind of appearance in GoF, tho, does suggest that they can have a role of some dead kind. I do not expect any resurrections in DH, tho I expect we will see some characters return from unknown whereabouts.

Harry's mum and dad are probably 100% dead, but a girl can hope. Namely me.

I wish they could come back and be with Harry forever and ever, but it's not really possible. Unless it was Harry's aunt and Uncle Voldemort killed, taken pollyjucie potion to look like them while Lilly and James went food shopping or something and Voldemort killed them, so everybody, even DD thought it was Lilly and James ever since.

but then why did James and Lilly stay in hiding? Yeah, not possible really. but Harry needs some sort of family. Ok, hows this for a theory-Harry's long lost cousins daughters neices boyfriends brothers uncle twice removed turns up? Lol. Better that then nothing.

No matter how much I want Harry to have some kind of loving family again, no, they won't come back. They can't come back. It isn't possible.

We even have proof that it isn't going to happen - Priori Incantatem. He saw his parents come out of Voldemort's wand. And that only recalls the spirits of people who have passed on and that have been killed with that wand. So since Harry saw his parents come out of the wand, it isn't really possible, is it?

Oh well, poor Harry!

Ummm, i think that thats a very good thought, but Harrys parents are as good as dead.
They wont be coming back i dont think...
its not humanly-witch/wizard or muggle-possible.
and if they were ghosts, they wouldve shown themselve to their son, would they not?
so, no they wont come back.
Rons just getting licky, thats all.
thats why wat he saw in the Mirror of Erised is coming true, if only partialy.

This very subject interlocks with some posts that I have made in comparison with the Secrets of the Circular Room in the Dept. of Mysteries forum. I have said in respect to notions that the Veil Room, was a place that the dead can contact the living, if they are trapped in oblivion. What this means, is the way they are killed, puts their spirits behind that Veil. You, see, the Potters were killed with the Killing Curse, and from dying in this fashion, their souls were ripped from their bodies, and trapped in a place, that is neither Hell, nor Heaven. It is a type of neitherworld. Those who are good spirited, or even in between that, and evil, are placed here. The Potters are not Ghosts, in respect to which Nick said in OotP about ( Spoiler ) Sirius's Death Also, it is deducable that they are not in "Heaven" either. Harry was entranced by those voices behind that veil, I think they did so, because he was hearing the murmuring of his parents, grandparents and aunts/uncles. Ginny was also entranced, but there was death in her family too, I think it mentions in a previous book, that an aunt or uncle had died doing something that delt with the OotP. Also, in a way, Neville did too. His parents sanity was stripped from them, and in turn I think a big part of their spirits. Now, to Luna, she has definately suffered and remembered a tragic death within her intermediate family, her Mum. Now, for Hermione, she wasnt entranced, because, she has had no known deaths in her family. What I am trying to point out here, is that the Potter's voices, could come back via the Veil, if Harry goes back to the Dept. of Mysteries.
Well, I must bid everyone farewell, for need of some sleep. Until the future, goodbye, and happy posting!!

Thanks,

~~~Prince~~~

That's a really interesting thought. I've never really thought of it like that but you're right, the only people who were entranced by the viel were people who have dead relatives. I think you're right in believing that Harry could talk to his parents if he were to go back to the Department of Mysteries. However, I don't think that JK will have him return there. She has said that nobody will return from the dead and I think that this theory would be as good as them returning to sit down and have a cup of coffee w/Harry, not gonna happen. She could be lying but then she has said in another interview that she has never knowingly lied about the plot of the books in an interview so unless something changes...it doesnt look like it's gonna happen I'm sorry to say.

it seems extremely unlikely that james and lily would come back. yes, they may be there in behind the veil if harry does go back to the department of mystery. but as believe07 said, it's very unlikely that JK will bring anyone back from the dead. once a person is dead, there is no way of bringing them "truly" back. his parents did come back in the fourth book, but that was because of powerful magic. and in order for his parents to become ghosts, wouldn't they already of been seen? and doesn't a person decide that fate for themselves?? at least that's what i remember being said.

Nopers. They are not coming back. That would be kind of cheesy, don't you think? If we do hear of them, which is a good possibility, it could be them as ghosts or something but nothing more.

I didnt say they were coming back, I said that I thought, they would talk to harry "if", he went back to the Dept. of Mysteries. The way that they would talk to him, would be from the veil, and even then, Harry wont actually "see" his parents, but only here their voices giving clear and helpful advice. This brings me into another idea I pointed out in the DoM forum. I think that while they died, a spirit did rise from their bodies, and become trapped behind the veil. Before being trapped however, they learned that Voldemort was creating horcruxes, and that he was planning to become an immortal. I think this is why Harry heard the voices, behind the veil, they were warning him that Voldemort had achieved the unthinkable. Also, with Luna, Neville, and Ginny, and Ron hearing the voices which entranced them, were telling them to go back. This is because, they knew that the DoM was a trap for Harry, and whoever helped him to "rescue" Sirius. If anyone have any questions as to how I have came to conclude with these theories, then feel free to PM me.

Thanks,

~~Prince~~

I don't think that Lily and James can come back at all, nor Sirius no matter how many people wish it is possible, there is a saying about the 'dead stay dead'. I do think that there might be a revelation for Harry though in the fact that over the years he has built his own 'family' from his friends and the Weasleys. Family is after all what we make it.

And after all what would Harry do if his parents came back, he has made his own life, survived on his own. No I really don't think they'll return, mores the pity though.

To paraphrase the Princess Bride, Lily and James are dead. All dead. Not just partly dead. And I don't see them coming back to life. Because they're dead. All dead.

OK, another point, Dumbledore declares that death is merely the next great adventure for the well-organized mind, so he clearly wasn't afraid of dying, and that could be a message that JKR was trying to send that if Harry dies at the end, it may not be the worst thing that could happen.....Although I, for one, hope he does not die at the hands of LV, it is possible that Rowling could find a way to kill Harry in a meaningful way and still make people want to go watch the Deathly Hallows in the theaters in a few years.

yeah you knwo this has been said many times they arent coming back so everyone jsut drop it however i do believe that some how they will play a part in the deatlhly hallowshow im not sure but iknwothat they will
seachell

Harry's parents are dead. Yes this is true and I'm sorry to say it. But has anyone considered the possibility that Voldemort may bring them back as inferi? It would be pure evil and something I can see him doing. They're definetly not alive tho since they're animated corpses, but it seems more likely that this will happen before his parents come back as ghosts. Just a thought.

I can see why Voldy would want to bring them back as Inferi and that would be completely and totally evil. If it's reversable and they can be taken out of the whole Inferi thing then maybe that would happen. I can't see the Harry Potter series ending having Harry's parents as Inferi. That would be kinda harsh, cruel and sad, don't you think?

The moment I read about Inferi in the Half Blood Prince, I thought it was a given that Harry would have to fight his parents as inferi. I was extremely relieved that Jo didn't do that to us all in HBP, and I doubt that she will do it in DH. For starters, my suspicion is that an inferius would be a body that has not been blown to smithereens, like the house in Godrics Hollow was (and I'm guessing that the bodies of James, Lily and Voldie probably went up with it). I suppose its plausible that Voldemort could exume a body from a grave, but on the chance that their bodies were not destroyed beyond all recognition, I still think it is unlikely that a body that has been decaying for 15 years or so could be of much use.

Yeah, Lily and James are definately dead. Finished. En fin. Nor or they coming back because as far as we know (or I know), you can't come back from the dead, even in the wizarding world. You can come back as a ghost, a reflection of the person you once were, but besides that, they aren't any other ways.... so it seems.

There could only be questions about whether James is really dead, although I think that it's quite clear that he is. Even if Voldemort didn't kill him, he would have died inthe explosion which destroyed the house. However, for Lily, there is no question about it that she is definately dead. The significance of Harry surviving the "Avada Kedavra" and being the Chosen One, is that his mother sacrificed herself with old magic in order to protect him. She's dead, and James most likely is too.

I truly think that harry's parents are dead. We're almost 99.9% sure that the killing curse was used on them, and no one until Harry had survived that. I do think, though, that we will hear from them again, maybe like in GoF. But I don't think they will be fully alive, though it kills me to say it.

I truly think that harry's parents are dead. We're almost 99.9% sure that the killing curse was used on them, and no one until Harry had survived that. I do think, though, that we will hear from them again, maybe like in GoF. But I don't think they will be fully alive, though it kills me to say it.

i doubt that harry's parents will come back, if anything harry will be the one to be reunited with them by dying. thats one way his vision from the mirror could be "achieved". plus why would james be alive and yet let his innocent son go off and live with his horrible family members even if he was in hidding or whatever theres just no possible way what so ever

impossible,absolutely impossible.as much as we want harrys parents to be revived,they wont.

dd says in GoF that no spell can bring back the dead and everything else he has said has been truthful

the priori incantatem can not bring them back,and they cant come from behind the veil(i believe only people who died going through the veil can return,so yes i do believe sirius will return)

the only way he can be re-united with his parents is through death,but i still believe that harrys parents will have a crucial role in the deathly hallows

josh

no, they won't come back, it just aint gonna happen.
I want them to though! Please let them come back!!! *pleaseee*
i know they won't but it's worth a try.
I think/hope Sirius will come back too at some pint!
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Impossible. His parents are dead I hate to say it I love it if they came back. But they cant.

Harrys parents cannot come back. Dumbledore says to Harry. No spell can re-awaken the dead. I trust you know this. If dumbledore says this it is a fact. And if it was true then they would have been braught back to life.

james was killed first trying to stop voldermort.

then lilly was killed protecting harry and you know the rest.

remmeber in the graveyard where voldermorts last victims emerged from his wands?

there is no chance at all that lilly and james will come abck to life, it would just destryo the whole potter image i'm sorry to say !

[[font=Tahoma][size=7] of course not. dumbledore believes it. theres no proof that they r alive. wat could they be possibly be doing hiding from the world? and there are graves for them. surely the body is buried there. unless you're saying they're ghosts?

Hate to break it to ya, but the Potters are dead. There's all this evidence to prove it too. There wouldn't be a Harry Potter series if his parents were actually alive. However cool it would be if they came back, they won't; Dumbledore said himself that there's no spell or way to reawaken the dead.

Lily and James coming back would just mess everything up. But I really, really hope that Sirius comes back, even though I know it's not going to happen. ifly Sirius!

Forgive me if somebody has already said this.

Dumbledore has specifically said that no spell can reawaken the dead. However, he only said no spell. Maybe something will happen with the veil or the Deathly Hallows that will bring Harry's parents back. However, I doubt it because neither Sirius nor Dumbledore are coming back. Why should Harry's parents?

I think Harry ought to be reunited with his parents. Whether they come back or he dies, they ought to be reunited.

By the way, Priori Incatatem has proven that both of Harry's parents are indeed dead.