Blood Protection/Dumbledore and Harry

[a_svirn]

No: HPFGUIDX 158717

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "hickengruendler" 
<hickengruendler at ...> wrote:
>
> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "a_svirn" <a_svirn@> wrote:
> 
> 
>  > I am not talking about the fact of the attack here. The 
ministry 
> > would have found bodies and wreckage, but how could they learn 
> about 
> > that rebounded AK? There had been no precedents. Even if the 
Aurors 
> > suspected that the scar was from some curse they wouldn't have 
> known 
> > for sure and certainly the sheer speed the boy-who-lived story 
took 
> > root with makes the involvement of the ministry officials 
doubtful. 
>  
> Hickengruendler:
> 
> Well, but the same is true for Dumbledore as well. How could he 
have 
> known? Everything you mentioned above counts for him as well. 
Unless 
> he really had a spy under the Invisibility cloak there, and I do 
not 
> believe this, since I find this theory having to many holes. 
> 
> Or maybe a portrait was there, seeing what happened. That's a 
> possibility. A portrait could have told both Dumbledore and the 
> ministry, or even a random wizarding family, depending how other 
> versions of the portrait are hanging.

a_svirn:
I don't know how, but I know that he did. 

"That's not all. They're saying he tried to kill the Potter's son, 
Harry. But -- he couldn't. He couldn't kill that little boy. No one 
knows why, or how, but they're saying that when he couldn't kill 
Harry Potter, Voldemort's power somehow broke -- and that's why he's 
gone." 

That's the version that has somehow been spread. Dumbledore 
cautiously confirmed it with "It certainly seems so". 

And later:

"Is that where -?" whispered Professor McGonagall. 
"Yes," said Dumbledore. "He'll have that scar forever."

Sounds like he knew for sure what happened. A portrait is a 
possibility, but a bit farfetched. Besides it would have probably 
been destroyed too. 

a_svirn:
I don't know how, but I know that he did. 

 "That's not all. They're saying he tried to kill the Potter's son, 
Harry. But -- he couldn't. He couldn't kill that little boy. No one 
knows why, or how, but they're saying that when he couldn't kill 
Harry Potter, Voldemort's power somehow broke -- and that's why he's 
gone." 

That's the version that has somehow been spread. Dumbledore 
cautiously confirmed it with "It certainly seems so". 

And later:

"Is that where -?" whispered Professor McGonagall. 
"Yes," said Dumbledore. "He'll have that scar forever."

Sounds like he knew for sure what happened. 

A portrait is a possibility, but a bit farfetched. Besides if the 
portrait witnessed the murder he or she would have been able to 
describe it without omissions. Yet a very significant part about 
Lilly was left out.