OOP: Dumbledore DIDNT explain everything

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No: HPFGUIDX 62658

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "elady25" <imamommy at s...> wrote:
> --- 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 wrote:
> 
> 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

I agree imamommy. If the prophecy was made shortly before Harry and 
Neville were born then and it helped them to narrow it down to the 
two boys then the Longbottoms and Potters had already defied LV, 
either jointly or seperatly, in addition to being born at the end of 
July. It is likely that they had foiled some attempt of Voldemort's 
or refused to join him.

What I wonder is if the Potters and Longbottoms were told immediately 
or if it was not know until Voldemort set his cap to going after the 
Potters. I'd imagine D-dore might have waited a little bit, but he 
also implied that no one was sure of who it would be until the attack 
on the Potters. But it seems that both families wouldn't hide for 
almost two years.

And if the attack on Harry had been a sucess would LV have killed 
Neville next? 

Thanks, Olivia