[HPforGrownups] Godric's Hollow - How did Dumbledore know of Lilly's sacrifice?

[Jeremiah LaFleur]

No: HPFGUIDX 163885

Allen:

It is even possible that
Lilly sent a report of James' death. It is not however possible for
either Lilly or James to have reported that Harry had survived.

This raises the issue of how then did Dumbledore know enough to order
Hagrid to retrieve Harry from the ruins of his parent's house and then
place him with the Dursleys?

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Jeremiah:

Well, I love what JKR did with Patronus (Patroni?) but I would think that
Dumbledore went to Godric's Hollow afterwards to find out.

The other idea is since Harry's feelings are so strong about that night, if
DD took a chance and was able to read Harry's thoughts then DD may have
figured it out through occlumency. Not only that, DD has all those nift
little spindly gadgets in his office...

Hmmmm... How did DD know about the attack? I think that's part of the
mystery and a Patronus would be a great answer. (And it probably is the
answer) but what if DD had people patroling the Potter's residence (maybe
not knowint it's true location but just reporting on
general-suspicious-activity) and tipped DD off when they heard the house
blow up (or whatever it did). Sort of like Arabella Figg does with the
Privet Drive? I'm sure DD had a ton of safety-valves put in place for the
Potters and the Longbottoms during this time. Also, he may have suspected LV
to have chosen the Potters and sent Fawkes to be there and monitor the
situation. Fawkes would have sent his magically-apparating tailfeather...
and DD would have known someting was going-down at the Potters.

Maybe, if DD was in on the secret of the Potter's location, he was going to
pop in for a morning cup of tea and found the nasty destruction himself. All
of this is unknown. However, from McGonagall's Q&A with DD in the very first
chapter of the very first book I would think that DD had been by the house
at some point during the day... he seems so definite in his non-verbal
answer... it just seems like he'd seen it for himself.

Also, was Sirius there before Hagrid? (please correct me if I'm wrong) That
leads me to believe that Sirius may have been the one to sound the alarm to
the rest of the Order... and wouldn't that look slightly supicious? If
Sirius was thought to have been the Secret Keeper and was the first to sound
the alarm...


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