Have you ever considered....

[vjmerri]

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Date: 8/16/00 1:28 am  (ET)

By: Danemead
Date: 8/16/00 12:52 am

>doesn't actually hear James die, he only hears >him telling Lily to take
Harry and go. Then he >hears Voldemort telling his mother to step aside

Voldemort says that he killed James first, but he may either truly not
know or be deliberately lying.

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And WHAT destroyed the Potters' home? The Avada Kedavra curse doesn't
cause damage to things, only kills people (sounds like a neutron
bomb). Did the "backfire" from Harry blow up the house? Did James do it
when he attempted some so-far-unknown destructive curse on Voldemort? And
if the house was nearly destroyed, why wasn't Harry injured except for
a cut on his forehead?

All good questions. The wizarding world seems to assume that the failed
curse caused some backlash that destroyed the house, but I can't recall
anyone having a theory on why Harry wasn't injured in the destruction
of the house. Of course, what "the wizarding world _knows_" seems to
turn out to be frequently wrong in JKR's world, so I don't think we can
assume it is valid. Now one thing we know is that Hagrid was relatively
close by, since he took Harry to Dumbledore on Sirius' motorcycle. We
need more information to come up with a really good explanation.

Vicki

D'Yquem, king and god of the universe, otherwise known as the
most beautiful kitty on the face of the planet, is expressing his
dissatisfaction with my attention to this screen when I should be paying
attention to him. If Rita Skeeter tried to bug my house she probably
wouldn't last long enough to regret it. D'Yquem has his own patented
crutiatus curse.