Voldemort - 2 bodies?

[zanooda2]

No: HPFGUIDX 175997

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Mike" <mcrudele78 at ...> wrote:

> 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.


Hi Mike! <bg> I only partly agree with you. I agree that most wizards 
on the sreet believed LV was dead, but I think more people than just 
DD's confidants (and name at least one, BTW :-)) knew that LV could 
return one day. 

Remember the Lestranges/Crouch trial? Crouch Sr. says they believed 
Longbottoms knew "the present whereabouts" of their "exiled master" 
and were planning to restore him to power. No one in the courtroom 
said: "What do you mean, exiled? He is dead and buried!" 

In GoF LV informs his DEs that he was in hiding because he "knew that 
the Aurors were still abroad and searching for me". If they looked 
for him, it means they suspected he was not finished. It seems that 
quite a few people outside DD's inner circle knew that LV was not 
gone forever.

 
> 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. So Bella had inside information that LV 
> could return. But Bella was definitely the exception.
 
 
Here I agree. LV probably talked about his immortality, but never 
gave his DEs any details. And even if Bella knew that the cup was a H-
x, I believe she thought it was the only one, just like Regulus 
thought the locket was the only H-x.


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