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The reason for your confusion may be sloppy reporting or summaries (which I personally attribute to the Gryff fans' tendency to whitewash the Potters --g--).

Rowling made the statement about James supporting his buddy at Carnegie Hall (see http://www.the-leaky-cauldron.org/2007/10/20/j-k-rowling-at-carnegie-hall-reveals-dumbledore-is-gay-neville-marries-hannah-abbott-and-scores-more)

This is in the reporter's summary of the event:

Jo related the fact that Remus Lupin, prior to the third book, was unemployable because he was a werewolf and upon his graduation from Hogwarts along with James and Lily, was supported by James using their own money.

However, that is not at all what she said. Rowling's actual quote follows:

Q: Harry often wondered about his parents lives before he died. What did Lily, James, Remus, Lupin and Sirius do after Hogwarts?

JKR: To take Remus first, Remus was unemployable. Poor Lupin, prior to Dumbledore taking him in, lead a really impoverished life because no one wanted to employ a werewolf. The other three were full-time members of the Order of the Phoenix. If you remember when Lily, James and co. were at school, the first war was raging. It never reached the heights that the second war reached, because the Ministry was never infiltrated to that extend but it was a very bad time, the same disappearances, the same deaths. So that's what they did, they left school. James has gold, enough to support Sirius and Lily. So I suppose they lived foff a private income. But they were full-time fighters, that's what they did, until Lily fell pregnant with Harry. So then they went into hiding.


BTW, in looking for the quote, I came across this interview: http://www.gazette-du-sorcier.com/J-K-Rowling-recoit-le-Prix-James,1037#english Rowling's recounting of how she decided to say Dumbledore was gay is certainly interesting. it is, of course, also contradicted by the transcript of her NY appearance. ;-)

So who knows what she's going to say when...