To sum up my previous posts: I think Dumbledore should have been able to put together both Lily's sacrifice and Harry as Voldemort's Horcrux within a day of the attack, just thinking through the information he had - the prophecy, knowledge of Severus' request, Severus' report about the status of his Mark and a reconstruction of the events of the attack based on a description of the crime scene, possibly an examination of Harry. We do know he believed Voldemort survived yet he never searched for his Horcrux all those years, so I think he decided it was Harry rather soon.
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Date: 2010-09-15 07:43 pm (UTC)