Godric's Hollow

[Eleri Hamilton]

No: HPFGUIDX 75866

At 01:26 PM 8/7/03 +0000, you wrote:
>Message: 14
>    Date: Thu, 07 Aug 2003 11:41:58 -0000
>    From: "ffimiles" <ffionmiles at hotmail.com>
>Subject: Re: Godric's Hollow
>
>
> > "Canon" doesn't help much in reference to this, but if you look up
> > Godric Gryffindor on the Lexicon. you can see that they do make a
> > mention of this. Also, one thought that did cross my mind.
>Voldemort
> > did go alone, because "he" was told where the "Potters" lived, and
> > if he was told by Peter, which we know is true, then how did Hagrid
> > and Dumbledore know where it was? If Peter told Dumbledore where
>the
> > house was, then why did Sirius go to Azkaban? Dumbledore said that
> > he had known that Sirius was the Secret Keeper that he did not know
> > that they had switched. Just a thought?
>
>Others can get into Grimmauld Place, even though Dumbledore is the
>Secret Keper - they just read the paper written by him - so I suppose
>Peter would have told sirius - but yes, come to think of it, how
>would hagrid and Dumbledore know, as having Peter's permission to
>enter would mean knowing he was the keeper - unless they only knew
>the general area where the house was, and finding one absolutely
>flattened, the secret betrayed means that others can know where the
>house is then - the charm is broken?  Hmm...

Or maybe it was the freaking big "explosion" that tipped them off. 
Dumbledore was certainly keeping a close watch on Voldemort's movements. 
Once L&J are dead, the spell is broken, because they don't need hidden 
anymore, and their location isn't a secret.  There may have been a moment 
when Dumbledore couldn't track Voldemort, put two and two together, and 
sent in the cavalry, but it was too late.

I'd always made the assumption that Dumbledore was one of the first on the 
scene, along with MoM people, and that Harry was probably taken off to get 
checked over. Dumbledore would have needed time to track down the 
Dursley's, and make those arrangements, and then Hagrid brought Harry to 
Privet Drive from wherever they'd taken him for the interim. (St. Mungo's 
perhaps?) My book one is in a box somewhere :/

Eleri