Voldemort's original body/Mrs Figg/New Art Revealed

[or.phan_ann]

No: HPFGUIDX 170028

In message #169956 Carol wrote:

>I have the same problem. If his body was found, mutilated or
>otherwise, he would be firmly believed to be dead. If his body wasn't
>found, how does anyone know for sure that he didn't just run away
>after killing the adult Potters and failing to kill Harry. Is it only
>Dumbledore's (and spy!Snape's) word that Voldemort was after the
>Potters? Why is everyone celebrating?

Ann:
I know that was posted a few days ago, but I've only just been 
thinking about this. Firstly, we don't know much about what happened 
at Godric's Hollow at all. For all we know there *was* a body. But if 
there was, remember, it had just had a house collapse on it. If so, I 
doubt a detailed description will be forthcoming. As to why we know 
so little about what happened that night, I think that's JKR assuming 
we'd fill in the basic blanks and knowing that she had more to add 
on the topic. The waiter recommends a side order of Shesezso to 
compliment the exquisite taste of this idea!

Onwards and upwards. People have been wondering lately who 
might "perform magic late in life", so I thought I'd add my tuppence 
worth. This has to be a non-magical character, i.e. a muggle or 
squib, which means the candidates are Filch, Mrs Figg, or one of the 
three Dursleys. (Unless it's some character who's only been mentioned 
once before or something, which I would consider Not Fair.) Of the 
five, none of the Dursleys are late in life - IMHO, Petunia and 
Vernon are only in their forties. Not much has been made of Filch's 
age, and I think he's unlikely anyway, so my money's firmly on Mrs 
Figg.

Lastly, seeing the DH special edition cover (which I think is great, 
by the by) made me wonder about the theories of regular/symmetrical 
repetition in the series. I'm vaguely convinced that DH will have 
something to do with PoA. But dragons have cropped up twice in the 
novels before: PS/SS (Norbert) and GoF (the First Task.) Does anyone 
else think there might be something to this? What happens in books 1 
and 4 *only*? The first thing that comes to my mind is that both 
climax in a formal maze, the obstacle course in PS/SS and the Third 
Task in GoF, and then Voldemort turns up.

Ann, expecting Mrs Figg to turn into a dragon in DH <g>