Godric's Hollow

[richandlaura1]

No: HPFGUIDX 149861

> Brady wrote:
> I don't know if this has been asked and discussed before. 
> Although,I have seen posts asking and discussing about what 
> happened to or how PP came to have Voldy's wand and maybe robes - 
> I have not found much being asked about his body itself!
> 
> The AV doesn't destroy the the body to the extent that it can't be 
> seen, right? We are always left with a body behind. But in GH,  
> till date, there has not been any mention of James', Lily's or  
> Voldy's body! Why? what happened then? 
> 
> We do understand from the interviews that there was someone else 
> there. The question is not who, but what did this other person do 
> after Voldy's seventh soul-piece was separated from his body? His 
> body would still have been there, just like the diary, albeit 
> dead. So what happened to his original body? why couldn't he have 
> possessed the body itself instead of wandering in the forests of 
> Albania as something lesser than a ghost?

Laura now:
I am not very good with exact quotes from the books but I remember 
reading something about the home in Godric's Hollow being destroyed, 
which I thought was strange since the AK isn't supposed to cause 
external damage.  But then again, this wasn't an ordinary AK.  When 
I want to know specifics, I go to the Harry Potter Lexicon.  So here 
is a little quote that I clipped from that website.

"Godric's Hollow is a Muggle village where Lily and James Potter 
were hiding from Voldemort in October of 1981 [Y1]. We know very 
little about it. We do know that they lived in a cottage there which 
was destroyed when Voldemort attacked them (PS1), and that their 
graves are in the area (HBP30)."

The Lexicon is great about referencing all their information so you 
can go to the book and find it in context.  If you want to read more 
about Godric's Hollow on the Lexicon website, click on 'search' on 
the homepage; then select 'places' and type 'destroyed' in the 
search line.

My personal opinion is that all the bodies in Godric's Hollow were 
at least disfigured in the destruction of the home.  Voldemort 
surely wouldn't settle for a body which showed evidence of his 
mistake.  But I bet JK Rowling wrote this part of the story assuming 
there wasn't much left of any of their bodies.  Probably James' and 
Lily'sgraves that are mostly symbolic, not really holding much of 
their mortal bodies.

-Hope this is helpful and might spur discussion, as I too am tired 
or the seemingly endless dialogue on Snape.