[HPforGrownups] Re: Voldie's old body (was: Voldemort and Elixir)

[Alexander]

No: HPFGUIDX 49399

  Greetings!

> Kelly wrote:

KLkyc> What we know was at the scene: A destroyed house,
KLkyc> probably blasted to smithereens by a curse like the
KLkyc> one Pettigrew used to fake his death. (***See end of
KLkyc> post for speculation about this exploding curse.)
KLkyc> James and Lily's dead bodies. Baby Harry, with a
KLkyc> lightning-bolt wound on his forehead but otherwise
KLkyc> OK. And the WW concluded, from that evidence, that
KLkyc> Voldemort was gone.

  Well, it has always been my impression that there were a
few Dumbledore's observers at the scene (persons or magical
objects, I have already elaborated about this in Fidelius
Charm thread), who immediately reported what happened to
Dumbledore. We know that Hagrid came to the Hollow *before*
Sirius, and Hagrid had to cross all Britain to come to the
Potters' House (not a big stretch to assume that he was at
Hogwarts in the end of October, is it?), and it's good fat
chance Dumbledore was at Hogwarts as well, so for Hagrid to
come first, he needed to depart almost immediately after the
attack happened.

  So the information spread sequence looked like follows:
Dumbledore's observers -> Dumbledore himself -> Hagrid ->
everyone else (we know about McGonagall for sure ;) ).

  Naturally, if Hagrid leaked this not only to McGonagall
(and given what we know of Hagrid, this is reasonable to
assume), it is so natural that by the morning of the next
day nearly everybody will know what happened, at least in
general detail.

  The more I read this newsgroup, the more I become
convinced in "Dumbledore's Observers" theory. It so nicely
explains all those things. Probably I should invent an
acronym for it. ;)

Sincerely yours,
Alexander Lomski,
Gryffindor/Slytherin crossbreed,
great supporter of McGonagall/Crookshanks SHIP.