Voldemort - 2 bodies?

[Mike]

No: HPFGUIDX 175964

> zanooda
> 
> BTW, the last book seems to imply that LV left behind his dead body 
> in GH, because DD says in King's Cross chapter: "He (LV) left more 
> than his body behind" (p.709 US). In this case it seems strange 
> that so many wizards thought he might return. If the body was 
> found, wasn't it logical for everybody to assume that LV was dead 
> (I don't mean DD here, but the rest of the WW)?

Mike:
Hi Mila!<g> I think that most of the WW *did* think that Voldemort 
was dead and gone. It seems that only a few of Dumbledore's closer 
confidants were given to understand that LV could and would come 
back. The rest of the WW was in deep denial all through OotP that LV 
was back. I've got to believe that that denial was grounded in the 
commonly understood reasoning that LV was gone for good after GH.

The same could be said for the DEs. Snape tells Bella in Spinner's 
End that he "thought him finished". Now that we know that Bella was 
hiding the Hufflepuff cup for LV, it seems likely that she knew that 
it was a Horcrux. She was frantic when she thought the Trio had 
gotten Gryffindor's sword out of her vault. I don't think that was 
over a mere family heirloom that LV told her to hide for him. So 
Bella had inside information that LV could return. But Bella was 
definitely the exception. 

In LV's speech in the graveyard he laments that he is disappointed 
that his followers thought him finished and that none searched for 
him. (My thought; well, you idiot, if you wanted to be found, why'd 
you go hide in some forest in Albania? Why not hide in Malfoy Manor, 
you're vapor, what can anybody do to you that's worse than what you 
already did to yourself?) So LV doesn't like it, but he understands 
that even most of his followers thought him finished.

Mike