Dursley protection, was Straight from the horse's mouth...

[Brooks R]

No: HPFGUIDX 1510

--- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, "Vicki Merriman" <vjmerri at i...> 
wrote:

This is no longer really tying into JKR-on-book-5, so I can omit the 
spoiler space.

> > But this also means something interesting - Vernon is presumably 
not
> > a > 'blood' relative, but Petunia and Dudley are.  Can you imagine
> > Harry's > mixed feelings if THEY are suddenly in mortal peril!  
> Voldy probably 
> > wouldn't think of hiring a non-magical hit man to rub out the 
> > blood-relative Dursleys to open Harry to attack....
> 
> Yes, but I suspect that the Dursleys may be protected in some 
magical 
> way that THEY are not aware of.  Also, while Voldy would have no 
> problem hiring a muggle hit man, there doesn't seem to be a lot of 
> interaction between muggle and magical universes, and Voldy has not 
> been able to interact in much of either one until the end of GoF.  
He 
> has been fairly non corporeal, or at least really physically 
> disabled, as we don't really know WHAT that was in GoF.


The latter points are fine for the past, but this is a future threat 
we are talking about.  However, in practice, it seems to be a 
limitation of many wizards, and especially for the 'racist wizards' 
such as many Slytherins, Malfoys, Riddle, that they cannot think that 
maybe MUGGLE technology could assist THEM - even the 'good guys' like 
Arthur Weasley cannot totally muddle through how to use Muggle 
technology.  Even though Riddle grew up in the Muggle orphanage.  I 
talked about this with my ex* last night, and we agreed that even if 
it *did* occur to Voldy to hire a Muggle hit man to take out the 
Dursleys, he would probably be handicapped by 'racist wizard' pride, 
and it is *that* which would prevent him from doing so.  However, the 
Dursley 'other protection' had also occurred to us.  

I still think "WHAT that was in GoF" (meaning corporate but weak 
mini-Voldy) was a Voldy-Homunculus.

-Brooks

*She was telling me about what she was reading, about this Jesuit 
scientist-priest (Teilhard de Chardin) who was searching for fossils 
in China, and was involved in the discovery of the Peking Man 
fossil (but also the Piltdown man hoax).....