[...] Everyone wished for something more to be done, and no one dared take the lead to propose it. Whoever stood out the most became the next example.
Until the names of James and Lily Potter rose to the top of that list.
And those two might have died with their wands in their hands and not regretted their choices, for they were heroes; but for that they had an infant child, their son, Harry Potter.
Support. It seems difficult to read that passage, then go on to see Dumbledore’s naming Lily a heroine specifically as “promoting her beyond her station”. Regardless of whether it’s true or not, Lily = Hero is apparently the official Light-side position.
McGonagall’s description:
Is this meant to explain the incongruity (if so, I still don’t get it), or to support that they were heroic (as McGonagall claims it)?
Support. It seems difficult to read that passage, then go on to see Dumbledore’s naming Lily a heroine specifically as “promoting her beyond her station”. Regardless of whether it’s true or not, Lily = Hero is apparently the official Light-side position.