Godric's Hollow/what happened (long)

[Joywitch]

No: HPFGUIDX 4410

--- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, "Steve Vander Ark" <vderark at b...> 
wrote:

[snip]
> In my opinion, Hagrid met Dumbledore with Harry that night and they 
> spent the day 1 Nov working out the details of the plan for the 
> defense of Harry as he grew up, knowing that he held in his 
> body/mind/soul/psyche/something a record of the defense that his 
> parents had been developing. They must now wait for him to mature 
for 
> him to fill the role planned for him, since no one knows what that 
> defense is: the only record of it is in Harry (the eyes? the 
scar?). 
> In the meantime, he would certainly be a target, and Voldemort 
might 
> still return one day. So they developed a plan involving Arabella 
> Figg, the Dursleys, and probably others who would watch over him 
and 
> guard him. Dumbledore probably cast some deep family-related 
magical 
> guard spells which are why Harry now has to stay at the Dursleys.
> 
> When the plan was in place, Dumbledore apparated to Privet Drive, 
met 
> McGonagall, and chatted for a while while Hagrid came along on the 
> motorcycle. After all, neither Harry nor Hagrid would be able to 
> apparate, so some other form of magical transport would be needed, 
> and the Knight Bus would certainly not be appropriate for this kind 
> if special situation. (Boom! Crash! And the Dursley's house jumps 
> across the road to avoid the violet triple-decker! The baby flies 
out 
> of Hagrid's grasp and bounces off Ernie Prang's head...)
> 
> Okay, how's that for speculation?

Excellent, excellent, Steve.  I have never been able to figure out 
that missing 24 hour period stuff.  Thanks for clearing that up!

-- Joywitch