[HPforGrownups] Re: JKR has updated her site today -- WEBSITE SPOILER!

[Phil Vlasak]

No: HPFGUIDX 158278


Carol responds:
In the RW, October 31, 1981, may have been a Friday, but in the
Potterverse, it may not have been. September 1 is always a Monday, so
October 31 should always be a Friday. But Halloween can't be either a
Friday or a Saturday, since Uncle Vernon goes to work on November 1.

Now, granted, Snape would not have been teaching at midnight
regardless of the day of the week, but there's no evidence that he was
at Godric's Hollow. ("Spinner's End suggests strongly that he was at
Hogwarts.")

Also, Dumbledore says in SS/PS that *James* placed the Invisibility
Cloak in his keeping before he died. since we know that Dumbledore
talkied with James about the Fidelius Charm and offered himself as
Secret Keeper, it seems likely that James gave him the cloak at that
time, realizing that he wouldn't need it any more but also, IMO, that
there was a chance he would be killed despite the Fidelius Charm. (He
knew there was a spy, evidently.) So, even though it doesn't sound
very promising as a theory, I think he just gave the cloak to DD to
keep for Harry.

Canon says that James gave the cloak to DD. Otherwise, I might think
that Hagrid found it and brought it to him after finding Harry in the
rubble.

Carol, betting that Snape was nowhere near Godric's Hollow but unable
to think of any other reason for keeping the IC mysterious
Now Phil:
I see an interesting parallel to the astronomy tower death.
James gave DD the cloak then Snape told him that something was going to happen at Godric's Hollow.
DD gave him the cloak and he went there to warn James of what was to happen.  James saw Snape near the house but Snape did not know it.
James came out to confront Snape, and Snape told him that Peter told LV where James and Lily were and that they should go somewhere else.
   James didn't believe him and cast a Petrificus Totalus spell on Snape who was still under the Invisibility Cloak 
Then LV and PP showed up and LV told PP to kill James. He couldn't so LV did it himself.
Snape watched it all standing there, imprisoned by the spell. When James died, the spell broke and Snape sent a Patronus to DD to tell him what happened.

Phil who thinks this might work.
 



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