The night the Potters died

[Jacqueline Hendries]

No: HPFGUIDX 42225

here's a silly, not very in-depth question, but something I've always
wondered - if the house in Godric's Hollow was blown to smithereens -
how did Harry survive *that*? I mean, I can see Lily's sacrifice
protecting him from AK, but from falling brick? I don't have the books
right in front of me, but I'm pretty sure that when Hagrid arrives with
Harry on Sirius's motorbike, he says that the house was leveled when he
got there, I don't know if he ever says that Harry was *in* the house
at that point, though. So, this kind of opens up two possibilities:

1) The Potters (well, Lily at least) were not indoors when the AK
rebounded on Voldemort, or...

2) There was indeed someone else around that scooped up poor,
traumatised little Harry and deposited him outside before the house
blew up.

The second is kind of an interesting interpretation... but if there was
someone else there, wouldn't Harry probably have remembered? Supposedly
JKR is going to be elaborating on what happened that night in later
books, but it seems to me that there's a bit of a plot hole there, or
at least an action hole. :) Thoughts?

(slightly OT) PS - I keep hearing that the release of OoP has been
"confirmed" for June 2003 (and this week's Newsweek mentioned having
another year to wait for Book 5), but so far nothing from Bloomsbury,
and when I search the net with Google, I can't find anything either. Is
this a real, true, thing, or can I still hope for Holiday 2002? ;)

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