How did WW learn LV evaporated?

[Steve]

No: HPFGUIDX 166385

---  "justcarol67" <justcarol67 at ...> wrote:
>
> Kvapost wrote:
> > 
> >> My question is - how did the WW find out about 
> >> LV's evaporation? ...
> > 

> Goddlefrood responded: 
> > Briefly to open, my view is that Hagrid was 
> > responsible forspreading the rumours of LV's demise.
> > 

> houyhnhnm added:
> > There may not have been witnesses to the actual 
> > attack, but there could have been other Wizarding 
> > families in the general vicinity of Godric's Hollow 
> > ...
> > 

> 
> Carol chimes in:
> 
> ...
> 
> How did anyone from, say, the Ministry or the Daily 
> Prophet, know that Voldemort had killed the Potters and
> then vanished rather than being killed himself? 
> 
> ...
>
> So what did the Aurors find? Were there identifiable 
> bits of Voldemort lying around? ... If so, wouldn't he
> have been pronounced dead (wrongly, as it turns out)? 
> And if no bits of him were found, what proof was there
> that Voldemort did it and that he was vaporized? 
> 

bboyminn:

Actually, I think something of Voldemort's body was 
found, though I doubt that many people actually new
what 'Snake Boy' Voldemort looked like. Either bits of
his body, or just the damaged body itself. That part 
is not actually clear in the books. Voldemort became
Vapormort, but was his body disintegrated, mangled,
or just 'killed'.

I do agree this is a good question. If some evidence
was found, then why were there people like Dumbledore
and Hagrid who didn't think Voldemort was dead? I
suspect, that Dumbledore, and therefore Hagrid, knew that
Voldemort had been experimenting at extending his life
and/or preventing death. Though, at the time, they 
wouldn't have know the details. Remember Hagrid making
a comment to the effect that he didn't know if Voldemort
had enough human left in him to actually die. 


> Carol Continues:
>
> All we have is two presumably unmarked bodies, an 
> exploded house, and a living toddler with a 
> lightning-bolt-shaped cut on his forehead. ..., how 
> did the Daily Prophet even know about the Boy Who 
> Lived,
> ...
> 

bboyminn:

If you will note the Additional note I added to my previous
post in this thread, you will see a point that I think
you might be ignoring in the moment. We assume that the
story we hear now, is the story everyone believed back
then. But I suggest that the story and the truth of it
unfolded over time.

On that particular night, and on the next day, I suspect
that the best of the rumors was no more than Voldemort
attacked the Potters and was likely killed. The Potters
were dead and Harry survived.

At some point, probably Nov 2 or 3, the Ministry would
have made an official statement of what happened. More
details would have come out when Sirius was caught.
>From then on, it was a matter of putting the pieces 
together, capturing and interogating Death Eaters, 
Dumbledore gathering his own evidence, and gradually 
building some verion of the events as we finally hear 
them over a decade later. 

So, my point is, the giddy hubbub we see the next day
might have been a combination of rumor and wishful
thinking. The full story most likely unfolded over a
period of days and perhaps weeks. 

For what it's worth.

Steve/bboyminn