OOP: Dumbledore DIDNT explain everything

[elady25]

No: HPFGUIDX 62625

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "jenny_ravenclaw" 
<meboriqua at a...> wrote:
> Here's what I want to know:  what exactly is meant by "thrice 
defied"?  
> Were the Potters (or the Longbottoms, for that matter) ever in a 
> position to go along with Voldemort?  Weren't they always against 
him 
> to begin with, making their acts of defiance a much longer list 
than 
> three?  What exactly counts as defying?  Was it Voldemort telling 
Lily 
> to step aside?  Or something he said to James?  Or was it something 
> they did as a couple?
> 
> --jenny from ravenclaw, who can't believe Darrin didn't decide 
> Dummyhead Voldie would be a good band name, 'cause that was funny 
> **********************************************************

imamommy:

I got the impression from what DD said to Harry that it would have 
been a showdown situation, like in Books 1,2,4,& 5.  (I don't have 
the quote because my hubby's reading the book, but something about 
Harry being the only one to withstand VM four times, something not 
even his parents managed to do.)  So from that, I would guess the P's 
and the L's had each three times excaped dying at VM's hand.

my two knuts
imamommy