[HPforGrownups] Re: The Fateful Night (VERY long)

[Richelle Votaw]

No: HPFGUIDX 42276

Grey wolf writes:

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

Phyllis responds:

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

I'm not sure I follow.  How was this scene added by JKR?  It's in the book
already.  It was just moved in the movie.  And the way I see it, it's
Hagrid's retelling that we're seeing.  He's describing what he thinks
happened.  From SS/PS Ch. 4 page 55:

"All anyone knows is, he turned up in the village where you was all living,
on Halloween ten years ago.  You was just a year old.  He came ter yer house
an'--an'--" (stops and blows nose) "Sorry, but it's that sad--knew yer mum
an' dad, an' nicer people yeh couldn't find--anyway. . . You-Know-Who killed
'em.  An'then--an' this is the real myst'ry of the thing--he tried to kill
you, too.  Wanted ter make a clean job of it, I suppose, or maybe he just
liked killin' by then.  But he couldn't do it."

That's pretty much what Hagrid says in the movie, and pretty much what we
see.  We see Voldemort walking up to the door, entering, Lily slamming door
(pretty much could be imagined) flash of green light (comes from AK), Lily
is AK'd, Voldemort approaches Harry.  That's how I'd have put it together.
It would be logical that the man would be killed first, trying to defend,
followed by the woman.  Last, the baby.  I still think it's possible others
were there.  Probably not actually doing anything, just on the sidelines to
observe (death eaters, for example).

Richelle

Grey Wolf:

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

Sorry, I must've missed this.  Who would the third have been?  It is
possible to have been three, I suppose, but not just one.  Sirius says " . .
. when I saw their house, destroyed, and their bodies . . . I realized what
Peter must've done . . . what I'd done . . ."

Richelle