Voldemort's body

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 104518


Snow wrote:
<snip> 
...Sirius said in POA pg. 365 "I set out
for your parents' house straight away. And when I saw their house,
destroyed, and their bodies
" 
If there were two bodies that Sirius assumed to be the Potters and
Voldemort lost his body with the rebounded AK, shouldn't there have
been three bodies? Lily and James are supposedly both killed at GH and
Voldemort was ripped from his body there so which body is
missing?

Steve asian_lovr2 responded:
> 
> Yes, I did read that, but you are assuming that 'thier bodies' is an
> all inclusive statement. That is, that it totally defines the scene,
> when in reality it may have only been referring to one aspect of the
> scene.
> 
> Sirius starts by referring to 'your parents' which rightfully leads
us to assume that 'their bodies' is reserved for 'Lily and James',
> Harry's parents, and indeed that may have been the only part of the
> scene that Sirius was interested in at the time, but it doesn't
> exclude the presents of more bodies. By the same token, it doesn't
> demand that more bodies are present. <snip>

Carol:
If Voldemort's body was found, wouldn't everyone assume he was
dead--not, like Hagrid, thinking there wasn't enough human left in him
 to die? And yet if there *wasn't* a body, how would anyone know that
he was destroyed and that Harry survived the AK? Either his body was
there, looking unharmed but surprised (normal AK victim except for the
serpentlike face) or there must have been a witness.

Carol, who hopes that everyone has read the FAQ by now and realizes
that Lily came out of the wand before James (as we already *knew*)