Potters

[Hayes]

No: HPFGUIDX 30162

--- 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