[HPforGrownups] Re: HQ for the order- Curse Destructive Power

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In a message dated 8/11/2003 11:09:46 PM Eastern Daylight Time, bboy_mn at yahoo.com writes:

> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Danger Mouse"
> <dangermousehq at h...> wrote:
> > Yairadubin:
> > > Where was the HQ for the old ORDER OF TH PHOENIX?  Are they going to relocate now that Sirius is dead, or did the owners of that place die? 
> > Claire:
> > Perhaps the HQ was Godric's Hollow.  It would make sense, in a way, that it was totally destroyed when LV killed Lily and James. ...
> > Dan:
> > Unless, of course, The Potters' house was obliterated because of the reversal of AK.  
> bboy_mn:
> People keep wondering how the Death Curse could destroy a house. Afteral, the people who are killed by the Death Curse are left unmarked.
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I would say that Voldemort's intent in killing Harry was about a vicious and powerful as it could possible be, therefore, 
> when it rebounded it carried a huge potential for physical damage.

Now me:
I agree with Bboy that even the AK curse, which leaves no marks on its victims, can tear a place up if it misses its mark a few times. 
My problem with this theory is not with the place being obliterated by the curse. I don't think the old HQ could have been Godric's Hollow because then most of the Order would have to have known that Peter was the secret keeper. In OoP, Harry got a note from DD, and presumably so did the other current Order members, unless they were told directly from DD's mouth. If the 1970s Order members wanted to go to HQ, they had to learn its location from the secret keeper. If the location was Godric's Hollow, the secret keeper was Peter. They would have known all along that it wasn't Sirius.

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