[HPforGrownups] Re: The night the Potters died & where are their graves

[Suzanne Chiles]

No: HPFGUIDX 42267

James (quite well, imho) said:

> 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.
>

After all, Harry Potter IS the boy who lived. It is quite understandable and
literarily appropriate that the failed AK curse would destroy everything
EXCEPT young Harry, the boy who lived.

Zo