The night the Potters died & where are their graves

[Jerry Myers]

No: HPFGUIDX 42245

Richelle wrote:

> Yes, I can see that.  Suppose for a moment Sirius (I'll use him for my
> purposes at the moment) has come to try and help the Potters.  He finds he
> was too late, perhaps he arrives at the very moment that Voldemort tries to
> AK Harry and fails.  Could be something of that magnitude could bring the
> house down. (no pun intended)  As the house begins to shake around them, he
> grabs a screaming baby Harry out of the crib and runs out of the house.
> Watches it fall down.  Realizes Voldemort has been defeated.  Has some
> urgent business to attend to, but what?  Making sure Voldemort's gone
> perhaps?   Anyway, what to do with the baby?  Leaves him in the house.
> Decides to come back a little later.  When he does Hagrid is there.  He
> takes the baby.  Then Sirius goes after Peter etc.  If not Sirius, go back
> and put Lupin in his place.  After all, where WAS Lupin all that time?  Full
> moon?
> 
> Still, point being it is possible that someone came at the very time
> Voldemort tried to AK Harry and was only able to stay long enough to grab
> Harry and run out of the house.
> 
> 

My theory, since I first read the books, was that the failed AK created the
blast that wrecked the house. Assuming that the rebounding of the curse was
the source of the blast, the epicenter of it would have been Harry himself,
with the blast radiating outwards (from his forehead?). Also assuming
Harry's 'protection' was total at that moment, he would have been left
laying in a somewhat broken crib with a now-blasted house all around him.
The force would have thrown splinters, debris, bricks and fragments of glass
AWAY from him.

Pretty dramatic scene for Hagrid to see when he shows up to carry the poor
little fellow off and also for Sirius when he (presumably) arrives shortly
after thereafter and offers Hagrid his motorcycle before he goes hunting
Pettigrew.

Jerry