Dumbledores lack of surprise + my point !

[Jen Reese]

No: HPFGUIDX 93932

> Inge wrote:
> > 
> > Ok - so how DID Dumbledore know anything about Lily's sacrifice 
at 
> > that time? Harry was a little more than a year old and the only 
> > person to tell what had happened at his home that night. Not a 
> chance.
> > Alas! Someone else must have been in the house to witness what 
> > happened and told Dumbledore that Lily actually gave her life 
for 
> > Harry. Who? 

Joanna:
> I think that someone did either witness or overhear Voldemort's 
> confrontation with Lily, who then reported it to Dumbledore.  My 
> guess is that Peter Pettigrew accompanied LV to the Potters that 
> night, witnessed what happened, and fled when the curse rebounded 
> onto LV.  Perhaps he saw Dumbledore shortly after and told him a 
> different version of what had happened in order to throw suspicion 
> off of him and onto Sirius.  I guess he told DD that Sirius had 
> shown up at the Potters with LV, and all that had happened 
> thereafter.  


Jen: This is the most fascinating part of the series to me--all the 
theories about Godric's Hollow and the missing hours. It's a good 
bet that either Peter was at Godric's Hollow with LV, or Snape was 
there (or both, why not have a crowd?!?).

Here's a link to a TBAY from grannybat that proposes Snape and 
Hagrid were involved in protecting Harry as well, by a potion 
involving Dragon's Blood:

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/message/83354

Perhaps when DD tells Minerva in PS/SS that "we can only guess" why 
Harry didn't die and LV was reduced to vapor, what he meant was 
there were several possibilities and they didn't know which one, or 
if the interaction of two or more, actually saved Harry? Later, he 
learns of Lily's sacrifice from Snape, and believes she is the one 
who saved Harry.

Jen, speculating with wild abandon ;)