The end of the Secret (Was: The lack of Obliviators and the Press at GH )

[PJ]

No: HPFGUIDX 149901

Carol:
> Actually, that's not quite what JKR says. Her words are, "the only
> people who ever knew their precise location were those whom 
Wormtail
> had told directly." 

PJ:
You're right.  I mixed Flitwick's explanation with JKR's.  

Carol:
> But (speculation again) if Severus Snape also woke up, feeling a
> terrible pain in his left arm as LV was ripped from his body and
> pushing up his sleeve to watch as the Dark Mark faded to almost
> nothing, then rushed up seven flights of stairs to inform 
Dumbledore
> of this strange news, DD and SS together would have figured out 
what
> happened--the adult Potters were discovered and betrayed, perhaps
> dead, but Voldemort was weakened and nearly destroyed, which could
> only mean that the child "born as the seventh month dies" had 
somehow
> defeated him and was still alive. 

PJ:
This really makes sense to me.  Since they're able to watch the Dark 
Mark get more pronounced in GoF as Voldemort becomes stronger, it 
only stands to reason that it would've started to fade out the night 
the Potters died and Voldemort was ripped from his body.
 

Carol:
> Obviously I can't prove any of this, but it makes sense to me that
> both the end of the Secret and the fading of the Dark Mark were
> required for DD to correctly deduce what had happened. 

PJ:

Works for me.  

PJ