[the_old_crowd] Re: There's not much to go on

[Magda Grantwich]

> Kneasy:
> The actions of the DEs should be a clue, but I'm damned if I can 
> suss it out. The story is that they expected the Longbottoms to 
> know what had happened to Voldy, yet the morning after GH  the 
> entire WW was talking about nothing else. What else was there to 
> know? The Potters were dead, Voldy had gone down, defeated by a 
> burbling infant. Why confront the Longbottoms? What could Frank 
> and Alice possibly tell them that everybody else wasn't talking 
> about?


Personally I think the whole Longbottom attack was Lucius Malfoy's
diabolical attempt to get his nutcluster sister-in-law and her limpet
husband out of Malfoy Manor because it was getting crowded around the
dining room table.  

The WW was talking not so much about what happened to Voldemort as
what didn't happen to Harry - he didn't die.  No one seems to have
known or tried to guess what exactly happened to V.  It is the kind
of detail that ardent culties like Bellatrix might be on fire to find
out.  Assuming that aurors would have the info - and especially two
aurors that V. was known to be interested in - is not such a large
stretch.

I lean to Red Hen's theory that including Barty Jr. in the group was
an attempt to bring down Barty Sr. before he became Minister of Magic
and set out on a (you should pardon the expression) witch hunt for
all DE's, suspected DE's, etc. etc. The WW doesn't seem like it goes
in for long term strategizing; Barty Sr. is a standout in that
regard.  Everyone else just wants a good party and then go home to
forget the whole thing ever happened.  Barty Sr. wants to exterminate
DE's.  Barty Jr. turning out to be a DE would raise a lot of
questions about Barty Sr in many peoples' minds ("can't even raise
his own kid"  "always thought he was a little too, you know,
hardnose").

And there was probably a lot of old-fashioned lashing out too.  The
Dark Lord - the all powerful - was apparently defeated by a toddler. 
How utterly humiliating for everyone who'd followed him so devotedly.
 It's the DE equivalent of kicking furniture.

Magda

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