I dont know if this is posted somewhere else, I tryed to look for a thread but had no luck. Does anybody know where they are buried?

No, we don't know yet.
The POA movie director Cuaron mentioned that there is a graveyard at Hogwarts that is in books six and seven. Maybe the Potters rest there.

Yes, it's quite likely that they are buried at Hogwarts. Especially when JK told AC that he couldn't have a graveyard in PoA because it was a main plot piece in later books.

I was wondering about that too

Yea I also always wondered why Harry never asked what happened to his parent's bodies, but I suppose he just had more important things on his mind, like getting attacked by Volde on a nearly yearly basis.

But (as far as I Know) we don't really know what happens Witches and Wizards when they die. After all why would they be buried? They might be cremated or maybe like the Jedi their bodies just disappear once they 'move on'.

I really hope it come up in the next two books, because I'd love to know what happened Lily and James’s (and all Wizards/Witches in general) bodies when they die. Maybe Volde's curse blew them to smithereens and their bodies were unrecoverable (after all Volde’s curse managed to destroy the Potter's House at Godric's Hollows, even though when he killed his Muggle family and step family their bodies remained).

But his Muggle family are that, Muggles. Their not witches and wizards, so it may not be the same thing with the bodies

I'd say it's highly likely that they're buried in the mysterious graveyard at Hogwarts. JKR obviously had a good reason for not wanting Cuaron to put a graveyard elsewhere at Hogwarts. Clearly, there's something very important connected to this graveyard. Although we don't know exactly what happens to wizards when they die, I don't think they just vanish into thin air or something. It seems to me that, apart from being able to do magic, their laws follow Muggle laws of science. The most mysterious part of magic are those that are being studied in the Department of Mysteries. Based on what Dumbledore said at the end of OotP, death is one of these branches of "magic." I think that wizards probably don't have anything mysterious happen to them when they die...especially based on what happened to Cedric. His body didn't vanish on the spot, and, growing up with a wizarding family, he must have some idea about what happens to wizards when they die. He must know, for instance, if wizards simply vanish when they die, and his resquest that Harry bring his body back to his parents indicates that his body will not vanish.

I suspect that wizards are buried the same way Muggles are, and while we don't know where wizards are buried, I'm guessing that they have separate cemetaries from Muggles...one of which is at Hogwarts. Since the Potters were in the Order, their parents were already dead when they were killed, and their only living relatives (Petunia and Vernon) had absolutely no desire to come in contact with them, it would only be logical for the Potters to be buried at Hogwarts.

I was just wondering about the fact that if JK has revealed that a graveyard at Hogwarts is going to be a main featur of one of the future books do you think this could possibly be because one of the characters die and are buried there. And if this is the case it would have to be a mian character for the graveyard to be so important and also possibly one of the Hogwarts students or teachers if thats where the graveyard is.

Let me know what you think.

(Sorry if this is not relevant if this is the case could someone please move it to the appropriate place)

If wizards bury their dead seperately from Muggles, maybe its to protect the deceased from magic. Not from resurrection, Rowling has explicitly told us that no spell can reawaken the dead. Instead from dark magic like what Voldemort used his father for.

I_love_Rupert_Grint, your post *is* actually getting a little off-topic. This thread is meant to only be for discussing where Lily and James may be buried.

I have copied and pasted your post to a new thread. For those who want to talk more about this graveyard in general, please click here.

SORRY SOULJACKER, BUT YOU'RE WRONG!! THERE IS PROOF IN THE OPENING CHAPTER OF BOOK 4. THE RIDDLE FAMILY WERE FOUND DEAD WITH THEIR EYES STILL OPEN. THEY OVBIOUSLY WEREN'T BLOWN TO SMITHEREENS! DUHHH! AND THEIR BODIES WERE EXAMINED LATER! HOW CAN SOMEONE EXAMINE BODIES THAT HAD DISAPPEARED?? THE SAME COULDNT HAVE HAPPENED TO LILY OR JAMES, AND I STILL HAVE MORE HUMILIATING PROOF!!WHEN VOLDY KILLED CEDRIC, HARRY DRAGGED CEDRICS (UNSCARRED) BODY BACK TO HOGWARTS! CEDRICS BODY COULDNT OF BEEN BLOWN UP! AND MR AND MRS DIGGORY TOOK THE BODY FOR BURIAL! CAN YOU BURY A DISAPPEARED BODY?? DUHH! IM ONLY 10 YEARS OLD AND I WORKED IT OUT! WRONGGG! BYE![/QUOTE]

Hello JD and welcome to the forums!!

I think it wise you have a look at our forums rules here and herebefore posting further.

Firstly, please do not type in all caps. IN CYBERSPACE THIS IS CONSIDERED SHOUTING. (do you get the picture? ) I'm sure you wouldn't like to be shouted at so please do the members here the same courtesy.

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When Harry finds out his parents were blown up maybe when they were blown up there bodies were like dust particles and were never buried.

hi all, i have sent this pm to ashleigh07. it is explaing my reasons for that post to souljacker on this thread. here is the post, for anyone else who thought i was out of order.





to ashleigh,
i had cap locks on by accident on that post to souljacker, and i had got so far, i couldnt be bothered to delete it all and start again, just for a silly writing case. and ask him yourself, he advised [/U] me to post it. he apparently wasnt insulted at all. is this a warning? if so, i hope you realise it was a pm at first, and as i said, he [U]advised me to post it. i hope you see my point. the double post was an accident, i thought it hadnt sent properly. i only joined 4 days ago, and only saw the reply today i hope you see my point, and erase any warning you may have given me.
JD-ZAK S

Hi yep that’s true I did advise you to, and showed you how to post your pm, but that was because from my perspective you had a theory on Lily and James’s death, and I was the only one who could read it.
I generally don't take myself too seriously and so its very hard to offend me, but I completely accept ashleigh's point on the matter and I think you probably do too.

But i apologise for giving you bad advise, I assure you i had no ulterior motives
Plus I just thought I would have sounded very rude on my part to tell you to rewrite your post.
Once again I apologise for any misunderstanding through my part to everyone envolved.

Shane out

For what it's worth, I agree with Ash on this one. It wasn't so much the caps lock stuff, although that was wrong, it was the general tone of the post and if she hadn't noticed it and passed comment, I most certainly would have. It's not really the done thing to respond to a point in a personal PM anyway and Souljacker was also right in telling you, JD, to post your comment here.

But it looks as though the matter is settled now, so maybe we should get back to the topic.

On that, it's perfectly possible that there were no bodies recovered from Godric's Hollow. We don't know the full effects of the AK rebounding on Voldemort and I was under the impression that the house was completely destroyed. Voldemort's body was destroyed, it's possible that Lily's and James' were too. The Riddles house was whole probably because the curse didn't rebound from them, they just died.

Even if there were no bodies, there could still have been a funeral and a gravesite. People do that for the symbolism, not just the practicalities of having to bury a body. There are loads of graves with no bodies in them for many reasons - the victims of aviation disasters, victims of war, that sort of thing, so that doesn't preclude the possibility of Harry visiting a graveyard.

Anywho, I think everyone is looking way too much into Cuaron's comments. The graveyard is clearly going to be important in GoF and I'm 99.99% convinced that's the reason she didn't want it introduced too soon. There's no reason to suppose Cuaron would have read GoF - why would he? He's not directing that one. I don't think it necessarily means that a graveyard will be important in HBP too. I saw that interview and he seemed very vague about the whole thing.

Graveyard important in GoF?? Are you sure about that, Dana_Scully?? I can´t remember that. Did your mind slip?? Or is there something new in the movie that´s not in the book and I´ve been living in my personal world for too long?

heh heh heh..... See? I do have a sense of humour, contrary to popular belief....

And you can call me Dana. Or Louise. Or 'Oi you', or 'grumpy-pants'. 'ratty-butt' or anything else like that... Just as long as you don't call me Umbridge...

do you guys think that Lily and James Potter could be burried in the graveyard that the portkey lead Cedric and Harry to?? i mean in GoF....and did we ever figure out where that actually was?

in philosophers stone petunia said that lily and james got blown up when they were murderd so they cant be buried can they really

Petunia said that because she was enraged with both of them. I don't think they had actually blown up though... if Voldemort was using the AK Curse, they would be dead but there's bodies left. And surely a burial would follow. But where...? That's the question now, isn't it?

okay, let's see... where to start... okay, I'm just going to think out loud for a minute.

it seems to me that under normal circumstances Avada Kedavra simply wipes the life from a person's body, leaving the body wholly intact. and on Harry's parents, Voldemort's spell worked perfectly, so their bodies should have been left, again whole and intact. however, when he attacked Harry, the spell rebounded. I assumed that the reason the house was destroyed was that this time, the spell was not "concentrated," the way it is when it comes out of a wand, but all over the place, not just aiming for one person, if that makes any sense. either way, the house was knocked down. so, I assume Harry's parents's bodies were in the wreckage, perhapse damaged and maimed by falling chunks of house, but point being, they still had bodies to be buried. this leaves me with a couple of questions though:

1) Someone mentioned that the curse destroyed Voldemort's body. But how can we know it did? Perhaps his life force was pushed from his body, so his body died and was left in the wreckage with the bodies of the Potters. Perhaps Voldemort's old body is buried somewhere?

2) Why wasn't Harry killed or injured by his house collapsing on top of him? Did Lily's sacrifice linger long enough to shield him somehow?

just food for thought. I'm fairly certain that the Potters did leave bodies to bury, and it sounds plausible that they are buried at Hogwarts.

I think it might be in the graveyard were Volde's father was buried. Itw ould create conflict because HArry would want to visit them but then again he would hate to go to the place were cedric died and volde was reconstructed.

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3 words: In A Grave

Right. Well essentially, people who have passed on are buried in a grave...what this thread is discussing is where exactly Lily and James could be buried, as in a physical location.

Thinking out loud as well.. but I'd have thought, contrary to popular belief, that they would have been buried close to or in Godrics Hollow, rather than the "mysterious graveyard" everyones talking about.

exactly jules, if it was an important plot point to the entire story, more clues / hints would have been given about it by now

Yeah, maybe, but Jk did say there was a graveyard somewhere in the grounds that would be important further on. It could be because of this, or maybe something else we haven´t thought about yet. But she´s definitely said it is going to be important, so why not because of Lily and James being buried there?

She didn't actually say it was on the grounds she just asked Alfonso Cuaron not to include one on the grounds because A graveyard is relevant to future books. It's a possibilty that the graveyard she's speaking of is the one from GoF a future book to PoA.

I searched for any topics on this but couldn't find any.

I just thought of something when thinking of DD's death. He was killed by the AK and his body remained in tact, as did Cedric's and Frank's. So shouldn't the Potter's bodies still be in tact? So they should be buried somewhere. Why has no one never brought up Visiting their graves and better yet, why has Harry never showed the least bit of interest in doing so?

Maybe I just read over it or something, but I definitely dont remember it being explained in any of the books.

Hi Solorund,

I am reading Sorcerer's Stone... again... and in Chapter Four (pg.33 US) Petunia says they went and got themselves blown up... and Hagrid says the house was destroyed too.

So... I doubt their is a grave... but even if there was a memorial of some sort... the Dursleys wouldn't have taken Harry there.

And since learning the truth about their death... Harry has inherited his parent's fortune... his father's invisibility cloak... seen his parents in the Mirror of Erised... and Hagrid gave him the photo album.

So it just may not be that important... to Harry... or to the story itself.

Well actually, the Potter's graves are mentioned. On the last page of HBP in the American version, right after Dumbledore's funereal when Harry, Ron, and Hermione are talking. Harry mentions that he's been thinking of going to Godric's hollow, that he'd like to visit his parent's graves. So, they do still have bodies that are berried, and on the note of what Petunia and Hagrid said. Well, Petunia is a muggle and has no flipping clue what she's talking about, as for the house being destroyed, that might very well of happened when Voldemort was disembodied, but might not have effected the Potter's bodies.

I too thought there bodies were blown up. Inm fact I used that to support my theory as why DD is still alive because his body was intacted. However, I do agree with Ghost, Harry did say that. THe thing is, are there really bodies in those graves or were they empty coffins. I always thought that as Voldy was parishing that the house and the bodies were destroyed and/or blown up. I guess we won't find out until he visits the graves now will we.

We wont know until that final book rolls in. AK doesnt destroy i thought it was like the blue rinse bomb from artemuis fowl. It kills living things but does no enviroment damage

It does raise the question that if it doesn't destroy inanimat objects, then why was the house in godrics hollow destroyed. Because the spell that back-fired was AK, and the house was totally pulverized (If I remember correctly).

Yes Padfoot, you do remember correctly, Hagrid said in the first book that he picked Harry up out of the rubble of the Potter's house. But, Avada Kedavra does tend to destroy inanimate objects. If you remember, in book five I think, a Death Eater used Avada Kedavra, but missed the person and the wall burst into flames. I think there were a few other times were it missed and destroyed things or set them on fire.

Now as to why so much of the house was destroyed, that might have been caused by Voldemort being disembodied. Maybe when his curse rebounded and destroyed his body, it released some sort of magical energy because of his other pieces of soul that destroyed the house.


Sorry, that was kinda off topic, but I think it did have bearing on this topic.

I do think that there are bodies, but proboly not fullt intact. There might be some spots with no skin do to burns, there is most likely broken bones, if not Lily then absolutly James, and maybe a dislocation, but other than that, the bodies should be intact.

There might not be bodies now, but there were 16 years ago. Voldy might be clever enough to use Lily and James's bodies as inferi, since then Harry would become extremly volnerable. But I don't think that JK would go that far, since that would be wrong on several levals.

~Prod

yeah i think JKR said that petunia was just enraged that she just shouted at him but infact they didnt get blown up, i remember her say it. there ar definately gaves and i do think that that will be a really emotional scene in the book.

The bodies aren't destroyed by the Avada Kedavra curse. That's why the police who investigated the murder of the Riddle family, that Frank Bryce was accused for, couldn't convict him because the bodies appeared perfectly healthy other than the fact that they were dead. Voldermort killed them using the Avada Kedavra curse (presumably). Also, Cedric didn't get 'blown up' he just died. I think that Petunia may have been just saying blown up because maybe she doesn't quite understand how the curse works. She probably just knew they were murdered by magic and just said they were 'blown up' but just meant cursed or something. I think there have to be bodies because the house couldn't have been destroyed. Harry may have survived Voldemorts curse but he didn't manage to leave the house on his own until Hagrid went and got him. The house was obviously intact when Hagrid got there and went in to rescue Harry because if the house had blown up Harry would have died from the flames and burned (he was only protected from Voldermorts curse, not death in general. He could have still died from an explosion or fire). The house must have been fine and if Harry was okay his parents bodies are likely okay because I'm guessing they were lying dead beside him. Like Harry mentioned at the end of the sixth book, I think he'll definetly go an find his parents graves and maybe even his house!

Well Voldy was "killed" immedietely upon trying to use the AK on Harry, so if Voldemort was the one who blew the house up, whatever he did to blow the house up had to have happened before he killed Lily and James (very unlikley), between killing Lily and James and Trying to kill Harry, or while trying to kill Harry. I would think the explosion would be the result of the botched AK.

That is all assuming it was infact Voldemort who blew the house up, it could have been any number of other people who may or may not have been there that night.

Yeah, I remember Harry saying that he was going to Godric's Hollow and to visit his parent's graves on the last page, too.

Well, I don't think that the Potter bodies where damaged by Avada Kedavra. I think that they were damaged when the house was destroyed.

~Prod

the bodie are at godric's hollow on page 606 in HBP
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ok here is what i have gathered from that night, in the first book it says the potters were blown up and such well i think thats just in reference to the house, becuase in POA hagrid says that when he got there the house was in ruins and he metions something about harrys parents so my guess is he got there seen the ruins seen the potters bodies but grabbed harry to get him out of there before ppl showed up then sirius showed up and hagrid got on his motorcycle. So there are most deffinetly bodies and are buried in godrics hollow becuase of HBP

harry mentions at the end of book 6 that he would like to visit his parents graves in godrics hollow. petunia probably said that they were blown up in the spur of the moment, and out of complete disgust with the potters.

question...if harrys parents are buried in a graveyard by hogwarts then why is it that harry has never visited their graves? i mean youd figure hed want to see what happened to his noble self sacrificing parents and see where they are buried if tey are in fact buried so close to where he goes to school.

Lily and James Potter were buried at a graveyard in Gordic's Hollow. I know thins becasue in the seventh book Harry and Hermione go to visit the graves. So there you go that is the answer to your question whoever started this Topic Glad to help

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jayden

lol problem solved then... I thought it was really sad, when Harry and Hermione went there..