Platform 9 3/4 / Hufflepuff / Joining LV / Potters in hiding

[nikkalmati]

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--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Catlady (Rita Prince" <catlady at ...> wrote:
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> Nikkalmati wrote in <http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/message/187971>:
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> << Harry was a year old when Lily and James were killed, so did LV wait almost a year before deciding Harry was the Prophecy Boy? It would seem so, because the Potters went into hiding only a few weeks before LV killed them and the response to the information and the request on the hilltop would make sense if they went into hiding immediately after that. >>
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> I believe the Potters were in hiding for a year before LV caught them. I envision that wherever they hid, soon DD's spies told him that LV had found out where they were hiding, so DD quickly moved them to another hiding place, but LV soon found out about that one, too. Since they trusted Peter to visit them in all their hiding places but Peter was LV's spy, the only delay in LV learning their latest hiding place is how long it is until Peter's next appointment to report to him.
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> Because LV kept finding out where the Potters were hiding, finally DD suggested the Fidelius Charm. I believe it was a week or two after that that LV finally caught them.
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> In <http://www.jkrowling.com/textonly/en/news_view.cfm?id=80>, JKR said: "When Harry was born, it was at the very height of Voldemort fever last time so his christening was a very hurried, quiet affair with just Sirius, just the best friend. At that point it looked as if the Potters would have to go into hiding so obviously they could not do the big christening thing and invite lots of people."
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> In <http://www.accio-quote.org/articles/2005/0705-tlc_mugglenet-anelli-3.htm>, she said: "At the time that they christened Harry, they were in hiding. This was not going to be a widely attended christening, because he was already in danger."
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Nikkalmati

I am not sure how that fits.  Snape would have had to be the one to tell DD that the Potters had been targeted, and that makes the scene on the hilltop shortly after Harry was born?  I have seen timelines that conclude Snape told DD shortly before the Potters went under the Fidelius, but I can't recreate it.  Anyone out there remember?

I am not sure when children are christened in the UK.  It used to be children in my church were christened at a few weeks, but we now see more older infants and a few toddlers. 

Nikkalmati