Harry's home in Godric's Hollow

[dicentra_spectabilis_alba]

No: HPFGUIDX 35841

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "abigailnus" <abigailnus at y...> wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at y..., "Heidi Tandy" <heidit at n...> wrote:
> > Lennyb wrote:
>  If so, is Hagrid telling 
> > > Dumbledore the house was "almost destroyed" an error? 
> > I don't see this as an inconsistency, and here's why. 
>  
> > I'm not saying that whatever happened to the Potters' house, it was in
> > any way comparable to 9/11 - I'm just saying that the precision of
> > coloquial language can't be held to a perfectly exact standard -
there's
> > subjectivity even in determining whether something was "destroyed" or
> > "almost destroyed".
> 
> I think we can assume, despite the vaguaries of language, that
however great the destruction was it wasn't complete, 
> or it's doubtful that a 15-month-old baby would have survived it
completely unscathed as he is when being delivered 
> to the Durselys.  Also, since I doubt that Hagrid arrived the second
Voldemort died and the house collapsed, the ruins 
> would have had to provide some shelter from the elements.  We don't
know exactly where Godric's Hollow is supposed 
> to be apart from the fact that Hagrid flew over Bristol to get from
there to Surrey, but wherever it is it would have 
> been very cold in the middle of the night at the end of October - a
baby might freeze to death if left outside in that 
> kind of cold for too long.
>
Dicentra muses:
Of course, if the failed AK produced a forceful enough explosion, the
house would have blown out away from Harry in all directions. I
imagine seeing Harry sitting in his crib, ruins scattered around him
like the walls of a crater. That could explain how the house could go
down without hurting him. 

As for the cold, babies, especially wizard babies, can stand up to the
cold rather well.  Didn't a two-year-old in Canada survive being
frozen nearly solid this winter?

--Dicentra, who wonders if Voldemort's body was found next to Lily's,
and if not, how did folks know he had been defeated?