Some questions on the series as a whole ...

[Geoff Bannister]

No: HPFGUIDX 181892

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "jelly92784" <jelly92784 at ...> wrote:
>
> Samadjar Wrote:
> 1. What happened to Voldemort's body in Godrics Hollow?  If his dead
> body was found in the ruins, then why did people think he disappeared?
> 
> If his body was not there - on what basis did everyone in wizarding
> world guess that something happened to him and started celebrating?
> Voldemort is very secretive about his whereabouts even to his
> followers- so what made people guess so early that he is not powerful
> anymore?
>   
> Geoff:
> There is an interesting series of comments which Hagrid makes to Harry
> in PS which might give food for thought:
>  
> '(Harry) - "But what happened to Vol - sorry - I mean, You-Know-Who?"
> "Good question, Harry. Disappeared. Vanished. Same night he tried ter 
> kill you. Makes yeh even more famous. That's the biggest myst'ry,
> see... he was gettin' more an' more powerful - why'd he go? Some say
> he died......
> 
> ...Most of us reckon he's still out there somewhere but lost his
> powers. Too weak to carry on...."'
> (PS "The Keeper of the Keys" pp.46-47 UK edition)
> 
> The implication being that there was no body at Godric's Hollow. The 
> other presumptions probably followed because Voldemort's activity just 
> ceased - abruptly and inexplicably.
> 
> Janelle: I've been looking for a reference to something else that
> Hagrid says to Harry about what happened after his parents were
> killed, but I can't remember when he says it or if this is movie
> contamination, but somewhere before Harry learns about the
> unforgivable curses Hagrid tells him that people came out of "trances"
> (and now that I write it I feel like it could have even been Sirius or
> Mr. Weasley that had this conversation with Harry).  I took this to
> mean that people who had been under the imperius curse had come out of
> it, which could have been used as evidence that Voldemort's power had
> gone - leading to the early celebrations.

Geoff:
Oh, that's in the same conversation from which I quoted....

'(Hagrid) "Some say the died. Codswallop, in my opinion. Dunno if he 
had enough human left in him to die. Some say he's still out there, 
bidin' his time, like, but I don't believe it. People who was on his side 
came back ter ours, Some of 'em came outta kinda trances. Don' 
reckon they could've done if he was comin' back."
(PS "The Keeper of the Keys" pp.46 UK edition)