The Fateful Night (VERY long)

[erisedstraeh2002]

No: HPFGUIDX 42275

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "grey_wolf_c" <greywolf1 at j...> wrote:
<snip>
> The Potters, for reasons unknown, decided to go into hiding. 

I think we do know the reason why the Potters went into hiding - at 
the end of PoA, I believe it's Lupin who says (liberal translation - 
I don't have my book with me) "Not many people knew that Voldemort 
was after the Potters, but Dumbledore had a number of useful spies 
who tipped them off."  What we don't know is *why* Voldemort was 
after them (although I'm a proponent of the Voldemort-wanted-to-kill-
the-last-heirs-of-Gryffindor theory).  We also don't know who 
the "useful spies" were, but can we safely guess Snape could have 
been one of them?

<snip>
> and Voldemort gets on the way, with an indeterminate number of his 
> forces with him. 

If we treat the scene in the movie that JKR personally added as 
canon, it shows Voldemort entering the house solo.

> Wizards from the MoM arrive to the scene, and find one to three 
bodies <snip>

At the end of PoA, Sirius says that he went to the destroyed house 
and found the Potters' *bodies*.  This suggests that both Lily and 
James' bodies were there, although it ruins my "protection is in the 
Gryffindor bloodline at Godric's Hollow" theory I discussed in an 
earlier post today (that I'm still waiting for someone to respond to 
on-list, *hint*).

Cheers,
Phyllis