Voldemort to Vapormort - How Did They Know?

[Peggy Wilkins]

No: HPFGUIDX 150444

On 4/2/06, Tonks <tonks_op at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Someone here once suggested that Snape would have known that
> something happened to LV when the dark-mark on his arm disappeared.
> But that does not explain how DD would have known that Lily did not
> have to die and threw herself in front of Harry.  Isn't it amazing
> how JKR just put these little clues right in front of us and we
> never notice that something is amiss?  I have never really thought
> about it. But how does DD know?  The whole WW knew overnight, but
> how?

The news of Voldemort's fall spread unbelievably soon after the events
at GH considering how few witnesses we can account for.  This suggests
that the news was deliberately spread.  So who started it all in
motion?

I think it's interesting that Dumbledore is portrayed as spreading a
rumor in PoA.  In the scene where Lupin describes how the Shrieking
Shack was set up for his use during his transformations he says that
the noises he made caused word to spread that the shack was haunted,
which kept people away from the place, and "Dumbledore encouraged the
rumor."  So here we have a Dumbledore who is more than happy to spread
misinformation when it works to his advantage.  This is a strategic
thing to do, so to me it is very Dumbledore-like.  I think the news of
Voldemort's fall may be strategic news from his point of view as well.
 This may also explain why Dumbledore remarks of the "dozens" of
celebrations he supposedly passed on the way to Privet Drive to meet
up with Hagrid/Harry: it helps spread a story and so lends credence to
it.  In other words, it's a diversionary tactic.

I know there's no direct evidence to support this, but I think it's
worth thinking about.

Tonks:
> And while we are at it some say that PP was there and killed all of
> those people with LV's wand and blamed it on Sirius.  Then how come
> LV's wand didn't regurgitate those dead people before Lily and
> James?  Huh??  How come?  PP must have used his own wand. Right?

I thought the people killed there were killed by the gas line
explosion, and so there was no curse that directly killed them; only
an explosion.  Whichever wand performed the curse simply caused an
explosion.
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Peggy Wilkins
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