Potters

[lbuske at yahoo.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 30522

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "Hayes" <ravenclawizard at h...> wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at y..., MurielP at a... wrote:
> > The thing that bugs me about this whole scene with Voldemort & 
the 
> > Potters is what Dumbledore says in the begining of Book 1. Prof. 
> > McGonagall asks Dumbledore if he knows how Harry survived 
> Voldomort's 
> > attack on him and Dumbledore says that he doesn't know & that we 
> may 
> > never know. So I wonder if the reason Harry survived & the reason 
> > Voldomort went to the house in the first place are two different 
> > reasons all together. And if the reason Voldomort went to the 
> Potter's 
> > in the first place is related to the past to Slytherin & 
Gryffindor 
> > then how come Dumbledore did not know how Harry su
> 
> I believe the word you were looking for was 'survive'. :) Anyway, 
my 
> name is Hayes and ve been lurking about the last couple 
of...months. 
> About this last topic, I have nothing to add to help clarify it. 
> Simply more to give us to wonder about. In the first chapter, 
> Dumbledore does say that he has no idea how Harry survived. And 
yet, 
> by the final chapter of SS, Dumbledore is able to give Harry an 
> answer about how he lived (i.e. Lily's love). How did he figure 
this 
> out in the course of a year at Hogwarts?
> 
> Well, that's my two cents. Later,
> 
> Hayes of Ravenclaw, 4th year


Well, he didn't have only a year, remember, in the first chapter, 
Harry was only a year old.  By the time Dumbledore tells Harry he 
lived because of Lily's love, Harry was 12.  I guess by then, he had 
it figured out!