Lily and James' death

[Steve Vander Ark]

No: HPFGUIDX 5444

--- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, Ellimist15 at a... wrote:
> Steve said:
> > As I wrote in the Lexicon, I think the other Death Eater, the one 
who 
> > killed James and Lily, was Barty Crouch Jr. I can't see Pettigrew 
> > doing it once Voldemort was defeated.
> 
> How would Pettigrew get Voldemort's wand then? I don't think Crouch 
Sr. would 
> have allowed Barty to keep a wand. 
> 
> Ellie

The entire Longbottom incident was quite some time after the events of 
10/31/81, possibly as long as a year. We have no idea at all what may 
have happened in that year. But at the time of the attack on the 
Potters, Crouch Jr. was certainly not known as a DE by anyone on the 
"good guys" side. That wasn't even clear when the attack on the 
Longbottoms happened -- they couldnt' testify against him. The trial 
we saw of Crouch etc. was an example of how Crouch Sr. was obsessed to 
the point of imprisoning his own son without substantive proof.

Steve Vander Ark
The Harry Potter Lexicon
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