Harry at the Dursleys

[lupinlore]

No: HPFGUIDX 118380



--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "pippin_999" <foxmoth at q...> 
wrote:
> 
> James instructed Lily to "Take Harry and go! It's him! Go! Run!  
I'll 
> hold him off." Clearly he had some means of escape in mind. 
> But Harry was in his cot when Lily died (per the website), so she 
> wasn't fleeing the house with him when she died. Knowing that 
> Voldemort would never stop hunting Harry, she  chose to give up 
> her life,  and the love and the home she could have made for 
> him, in order to give him the blood protection. Since this is 
> ancient magic, it is something she could have known about. 
> Dumbledore understood what she had done, and honored her 
> sacrifice by taking Harry to live with the Dursleys. 
> 

Well, IMO, and it is of course my opinion, a much more plausible 
explanation is that Voldemort swept through James while Lily was 
paralyzed with fear and before she could act on James' warning.  
Thinking all that through in the few moments between James' warning 
and Voldemort entering the room would be quite a trick.

But, we shall see.  I may be completely wrong.  It wouldn't exactly 
be the first instance in recorded history.

Lupinlore