  The discovery of Lyman-alpha emission from galaxies at redshifts beyond z~6.5
should not be naively interpreted as implying that the intergalactic medium
(IGM) had been reionized at higher redsifts. We show that a cluster of faint
undetected sources around each observed galaxy generates an HII region
sufficiently large to allow transmission of the galaxy's Lyman-alpha line prior
to reionization. We also show that quasars may contribute a significant
fraction of the ionizing photons to HII regions around galaxies with a velocity
dispersion larger than ~100km/s. These contributing quasars are not usually
seen due to the small fraction of time they spend in a luminous phase.
