24 hours again

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No: HPFGUIDX 103905

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "pandrea100" <pandrea100 at h...> wrote:
> Kneasy wrote: If the eavesdropper is a
> > Voldy supporter and passes the message on, that plus Peter (who
> > according to Sirius worked with the baddies for 2 years before the
> > GH debacle) leads one to think that he would have made his strike
> > much sooner.
> 
> Hang on though, the salient point was "born to ...".  Isn't the 
> obvious explanation that at the time the prophecy was first heard, no 
> one in the Order had any children?  Only when Harry and Neville were 
> born did it became urgent.  He could have done a Terminator and tried 
> to kill the parents before they gave birth, but if he'd missed them 
> three times already, it might have seemed easier to wait to take out 
> a supposedly defenceless baby.  Also there were probably a lot of 
> other things going on, evil deeds to do, resistance to fight, dark 
> spells to conquer death to be mastered, etc.

Indeed, born to.
But the attack still took 13 or 15 months (I forget which) after birth
had taken place to organise. That's a long time in a war.
True, torturing Muggles is fun, but you'd think it'd pall in that time
and other forms of entertainment, such as knocking off the competition,
would occur to them.

Even Herod with his primitive assets could manage it in a  few weeks.
OK, I'm paranoid, but that time scale doesn't seem right given what
we know. There's more to it, is my guess.

Kneasy