Dumbledore's lack of surprise

[Freeman, Louise Margaret]

No: HPFGUIDX 93951

> 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, 

Well, we know someone witnessed it, Baby Harry.  And we know he formed a 
memory of it, because the Dementors reactivate it, years later.  Perhaps the 
simplest explanation, given that we know Dumbledore is skilled at 
Occulmency, is that he spent read the memory from little Harry's mind. 
Ababy's mind might be so easily readable that no overt "spell" would be 
needed. He might be able to glean what had happened, even if Harry could not 
understand or communicate it at that time. Or perhaps another Occulmancer 
(Snape?) did so during the "missing day", and sent DD an owl. There wouldn't 
necessarily need to be another witness.

Louise