What might Lilly have known that DD didn't?

[Lyn J. Mangiameli]

--- In the_old_crowd at yahoogroups.com, "rebecca" <dontask2much at ...> wrote:
> This part of your post reminds me of  the "what *really* happened in GH" 
> speculation.  Everyone in the WW apparently knows at the beginning of PS/SS 
> that LV has "fled the scene" and disappeared after being at the Potters the 
> night before. The *rumor* (and I emphasize the word for a reason) as 
> McGonagall tells DD on Pivet Drive is that LV couldn't kill Harry. 
> Rumors....they do get around, don't they?  And the public at large (with the 
> exception of a suspicion DD may have had, and I'd have to check the timeline 
> for Regulus' spelunking in the cave) appears at that point to have not had 
> an notion about the Dark Twisted Lord's Hor-thing-a-mah-bobs.
> 
> Hello, what if LV *didn't* try a AK on Harry? I agree with you that the 
> definition of the word "kill" is probably not what everyone thinks generally 
> it is. I would equate what I'm speculating more with what the Dementoids do 
> when administering a kiss on their victims, or perhaps a form of soul 
> possession as LV did with Quirrell. DD did say in PS/SS that Quirrell was 
> "sharing" his soul w/ that of LV. And Nagini apparently does have a mind of 
> her own, if we take what DD says to heart.
> 
> Now, through too much sci fi viewing over during my meager existence, what 
> if LV's mission to GH was to collect Harry's soul and keep it himself? 
> That's a hell of trophy of the murder of a perceived enemy, given the 
> prophecy that LV believes, isn't it?
> 
> Rebecca


Lyn now:
Yes, it would be quite a personally significant trophy. I'm unsure of the exact thing that LV 
wanted to/ did do to Harry, but I'm growing more and more sure that he wanted to do 
something beyond destroying his body. 

It has been made very clear that DD takes this Hx and soul stuff very seriously, and has 
taken an uncommonly strong stance, for him, in trying to withhold this knowledge from 
others. I suspect it is because DD has some understanding of the potential for the 
formation of a Hx to affect the soul of others, above and beyond a simple murder.

It is a very curious thing, this whole issue of all the wizarding world learning of LV's 
"demise" by his attempt to AK an infant. As you point out, the WW in general didn't have 
any information about the prophecy, didn't know about Hxs, and probably weren't even 
particularly aware of Harry (who had been christened in private and been hidden most of 
his life). Makes you wonder what they told themselves, or were told, about why LV 
bothered to try to AK an infant. Makes you also wonder why this small community of 
wizards where everyone is related and everyone knows each other's business, all took 
what happened that night as so significant, yet so easily accepted that HP should then 
drop out of site for the next ten years. Not a hint of curiosity? Where the hell was Rita 
during this time--she should have been all too eager for the expose "Child who destroyed 
HWMNBN is found hidden with Muggles."

Just weird, a whole mythology is created and celebrated with abandon for a couple of days, 
then dropped in a heartbeat. I really hope JKR will offer something to explain this, though I 
don't have much hope. Really, where is this WWs curiosity, "why Harry, how Harry, where 
Harry".  It really does seem that the WW took the story it was fed quite uncritically, much 
as many still do.