[HPforGrownups] LV: Where'd He Go and How did Frank Know "Something"

[manawydan]

No: HPFGUIDX 150798

Rebecca wrote:
> but not to kill Neville. They specifically were the ones the DE's wanted.
> (Another question: who the hell *sent them* if LV was MIA? Don't blame me
> for asking, blame Rowling for her site's answer to the question of the
> choice.)

Very good question. Not Lucius, perhaps: too young at the time and not one
of the top DEs. I'm not totally clear about the timeline of the arrests and
trials of the DE leadership, how long it took the Ministry and/or the Order
to round them up. Likely that at least some of them were arrested the
following day, it's reasonable to speculate that Dumbledore and the rest of
the Order were busy doing that rather than partying or making sure that
Harry was safely conveyed to Little Whinging.

> Wouldn't that line of thought perhaps lead one to the speculation Frank
saw
> what happened at GH? JKR's also mentioned before that  we maybe haven't
see
> the last of the time turners -could it be that Ministry would have allowed
a
> time turner's use to find out just what happened to the most notorious
> terrorist in years? In PoA, time isn't to be meddled with and bad things

_Someone_ had to pass on the message that LV was gone, and that someone had
to be a reliable enough witness to be believed by the Ministry and the
media. Word was out very early the following morning for Vernon to see the
wizards out on the streets on his way to work.

Couldn't have been Hagrid who had to get Harry away before anyone arrived
and tried to thwart his orders.

Couldn't have been Sirius who had vanished in hot pursuit of Peter (and it
couldn't have been Peter, for the same reason).

Also, I couldn't imagine Dumbledore sending Hagrid on his own without being
sure that Voldemort was no longer a threat, Hagrid's a good guy in a fight
but sending him against Voldemort on his own is certain death.

The Longbottoms are a reasonable surmise to have gone with him. They were
perhaps scouting to see if there were any DEs in the vicinity when Sirius
arrived, conversed with Hagrid, and left again, returning in time to deal
with any arriving Muggles and report to the Ministry clean-up squad. If they
were then on the front page of the Prophet as eye-witnesses, then that's
enough to make them marked men for the surviving DEs.

And they had to have sufficient information to convince everyone that
Voldemort was gone, not just thwarted and retreated to carry on his
nefarious activities.

I've wondered whether they and Hagrid arrived just in time to see the final
curse that dissipated LV but too late to make a difference for James or
Lily.

But JKR alone knows all

hwyl

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