OOP: Dumbledore DIDNT explain everything

[dbonaker]

No: HPFGUIDX 62709

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Kathryn Wolber 
<katydid3500 at y...> wrote:
> 
> --- purple_801999 <purple_801999 at y...> wrote:
> 
> 
> > 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.
> 
> Kathryn:  Well here's what I'm thinking.  The prophecy
> was given 16 years ago.  Harry and Neville are only
> 15. 

You're forgetting that by the end of this book, both Harry and 
Neville are nearly 16, so evidently, at the time of the prophecy, 
they had, in all likelihood, already been conceived.

"dbonaker"