LV & HP in GH

[Amanda]

No: HPFGUIDX 113714

vivek wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> I am a new member and haven't been able to go over all the archives,
> but I will like to know how does DD and rest of the WW know about 
the 
> downfall of LV in the first case,as there were no witnesses to the 
> event except HP,who was just a baby. The scene must have been of 2 
> dead bodies,a destroyed house and a baby with a scar,how does the 
WW 
> realise that this means the *end* of LV.?
> And how does DD realise that LV hasn't died,and will return,because 
> there is no coment about HP killing the 'resurrected' LV,in the 
> prophecy. 



Hi Vivek,

New member here also (as in just joined today and are thanking my 
lucky stars for finding this place).  To answer your question...some 
of this is speculation on my part...

In Goblet of Fire, when they are in the woods after the Quidditch 
match and someone has sent up the dark mark, Mr. Weasley explains to 
Ron what the dark mark actually means, "...You-Know-Who and his 
followers sent the Dark Mark in the air whenever they killed...Just 
picture coming home and finding the Dark Mark hovering over your 
house and knowing what you 're about to find inside." (Rowling, GoF 
page 142).  So, extrapolating from that, whoever got to the Potter's 
house first...which I'm not certain who it was...saw the Dark Mark 
and knew that Voldemort had been there.  The use of the Avada Kedavra 
curse would also have been a dead (sorry about the pun, not intended) 
giveaway as well, seeing as how none but Voldemort and company had 
the nerve to use it.

As far as it being the end of Voldemort, they probably got it when 
people who were under LV's spells snapped out of them (the ones that 
were actually enchanted, that is).  LV's followers would have known 
instantly as well because of the marks on their arms and I'm pretty 
sure DD just knew it as well, if nothing else, than because Snape 
would have told him.

Guess work and extrapolation.  If anyone else has an answer to this, 
I, for one, would be very interested.

Kethryn