[HPforGrownups] Re: Question #3

[Lee Kaiwen]

No: HPFGUIDX 183374

lizzyben:
Maths strikes again.

Not to resurrect old discussions (or was that over in OT?) but is 
"maths" singular or plural?

As to Harry becoming the "Boy Who Lives", since there were no living eye 
witnesses to the events in Godric's Hollow (save Harry and Voldie, and 
neither was in a position to give testimony), one wonders how even DD 
knew Harry had survived an AK -- since no one had ever managed it 
before, it's not like he had prior experience to guide him -- let alone 
the entire WW knowing it within hours.

One might easily imagine DD deducing even that unlikely conclusion from 
the evidence at the scene, except for his statement to McGonagall to the 
effect "We might never know" how Harry survived.

But since DD was the only one on the scene who could possibly have 
pieced together what happened, and the only one in the WW save Hagrid 
who knew about Harry's scar, it's hard to escape the conclusion that he 
was the source of all the rumors that eventually fell into McGonagall's 
ears.

CJ