From JK Rowling World Book Day Chat - 3/4/04

[mnaper2001]

No: HPFGUIDX 94421

vmonte:
> Is anyone starting to think that someone else was at 
> Godric's Hollow besides the Potters and Voldemort? 

Kimberly:
> I do think someone else was there. I have this sneaky 
> suspicion that it was a certain Potions teacher, perhaps 
> in the form of a bat. I don't think Voldemort was aware that 
> another party was there. I think they were small enough to 
> be unseen. Would make it ideal for a bat to be there, hidden.    
> Now, why Snape would have been at the Potters is anyone's 
> supposition. If there was an indication that Voldemort was 
> headed to the Potters' perhaps Snape went to warn them.   

I think this is likely the case, with the possible exception of the 
bat thing.

When Snape goes to "rescue" Harry from Sirius, he yells at Harry and 
says something to the extent of:  I tried to warn your father about 
Sirius and he should have been grateful, but he refused to believe me 
and now he's dead and you're going to wind up the same way.
[paraphrasing there just a bit]

If Snape thought James wound up dead b/c he didn't listen to Snape 
about Sirius, it makes sense to me that he tried to warn them at 
Godric's Hollow.  What else could it have been?  Maybe Snape got 
there just before Voldie and James sent him packing?


Ally