The Opposite of a Horcrux; Harry's protection

[Trish]

No: HPFGUIDX 137680

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Catlady (Rita Prince Winston)" 
<catlady at w...> wrote:
> Nicholas wrote in
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/message/137620 :
> 
> << My conclusion is that Dumbledore set up his own death as the
> required sacrifice to create continued protection for Harry into
> adulthood. >>
> 
> I have a feeling that Opposite of a Horcrux (Incrux?) doesn't work
if
> the self-sacrificing death was 'set up' by the self-sacrificer.

Hmmm. This has been in the back of my mind for a while and between 
this statement and the discussion about what Harry would see in the 
Pensieve, I was wondering...is there any first hand account of what 
really happened when Harry's parents died. Was there an eyewitness? I 
know that I *should* know this but it seems awfully important. How 
does DD know what happened that night? That lily did/did not know
what 
she was giving Harry? Could Dumbledore have been mistaken about this 
as well? I mean, did Dumbledore go to the crime scene and do one of 
those "Well, the way the bodies are laid out I would assume..." Or
are 
we to assume that there is some type of magic that allowed Dumbledore 
to become akin to this information.
I know it is easy to say "JK wrote Dumbledore to say it so it is a 
fact that it is how it went down." So, is that the case?
I have a feeling that I am missing some important detail here about 
what we really know. Could anyone tell me what that is?

Trish
**who just started my traditional re-read of the series that I do 
every time a new one comes out (I re-read OoP, Read HBP, Read HBP 
again and now am re-reading PS and going in order again, do I have a 
problem or what??!!)