Do the math Re:

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No: HPFGUIDX 137895

> Kathy writes:
> 
>     Good catch! Now that really brings up some questions, doesn't 
it. 
> Dumbledore, Snape, and Voldemort knew of the prophesy a year 
before 
> Harry's birth. They must have suspected both Neville and Harry of 
being 
> the prophesy child by the end of July, a year later, when they 
were both 
> born. Did Dumbledore not tell the Potters and Longbottoms about 
the 
> prophesy and that Voldemort might have heard it? Sometime after 
the 
> births, Voldemort made his decision to kill Harry. Once Snape 
became 
> aware of which family Voldemort had targeted, he went to 
Dumbledore. 
> Approximately 1-2 months before the attack, Snape became a 
teacher, so 
> it was prior to that time that Dumbldore knew that the family 
targeted 
> was the Potters. Why did it take 1-2 months for Voldemort to 
attack the 
> Potters before Peter was made Secretkeeper if they were not 
hiding? Were 
> the Potters not told until a week before they died that Voldemort 
was 
> after them? What was Voldemort doing to confirm which boy was the 
one he 
> wanted? Why did he not make his move for 15 months after the boys 
were 
> born? <snip>

Cheryl writes:

15 months does seem like a long time. Perhaps at first he was trying 
to find out everyone to whom the prophecy might apply, and then 
perhaps he wanted to make his move specifically on October 31.  
Maybe Halloween seemed like an auspicious time for him (and that 
begs the question if he perhaps was, as Dumbledore thought, planning 
on making a horcrux with Harry's murder).  Why wait until the next 
October 31?  Maybe it took longer to figure out which family to 
target, and then perhaps LV didn't feel the need to rush, as a baby 
certainly wouldn't seem like an immediate threat to LV -- perhaps he 
assumed that if this child posed a threat, it would be when he grew 
older.

Nobody in the books has mentioned previous attempts on Harry's or 
Neville's families, but that doesn't mean they didn't happen -- and 
yet, it seems like they would have been in hiding sooner if previous 
attempts had been made.

Perhaps someone reported back to Dumbledore that Voldemort was 
planning to make his move soon before the attempt and that is the 
reason the fidelius charm was put in place only a week or so before 
GH.

Cheryl