[HPforGrownups] Potters' House Destroyed (was)Re: Voldie's old body

[Angela Evans]

No: HPFGUIDX 49415


 
So the discussion goes, why was the Potter's house destroyed?  AK does not cause this kind of destruction.  We are fairly certain that the Potter's were AKed (Harry's memory of the green light).  Also, when PP blasted the street, the muggles did not die from any "magic", but presumably from the explosion, like people who actually WERE killed in a gas explosion.  If the Potter's had been killed in this matter, it would probably been known by the state of their bodies.  So I think we can safely say they WERE AKed.  Also, Voldemort's wand in Priori Incantatem shows that no spell to destroy the house was cast by him before he killed Lily and James.  So what destroyed the house?  Well, no one has EVER survived AK before, and never before has an AK curse cast by an immensly powerful dark wizard ever failed and ricocheted back onto that dark wizard who was no longer completely mortal (I agree that Voldemort's body then was not "human").  Could this have had such a dramatic effect as to create a huge explosion, or somehow destruct the house?  It could.  Baby Harry in his crib was mighty lucky to have survived the house falling down on top of him.
In response to how people were able to assume that LV was gone (when they had no proof that he was dead) within 24 hours of his failed curse, it is a good question.  And canon gives us only one concrete reason.  When Hagrid tells that Harry that they knew LV was gone because some wizards came "out of trances" , presumably when they were freed from LV's imperius.  But could this realization could have happened so quickly?  
You just have to think that more people (good or bad) were present in or around that house that night besides the four we know of.
 
ANGELA



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