wonderings
Meredith Wilson
aviationoutreachcoord at museumofflight.org
Tue Mar 13 23:52:30 UTC 2001
No: HPFGUIDX 14261
Someone this morning asked (forgive me, I don't remember who and I
accidentally deleted the message) why Dumbledore keeps sending Harry back to
the Dursley's each summer if there are people at Hogwarts. I finally found
a passage that supports why he might do that.
It's in Goblet of Fire (I happen to be looking at the British version,
though I assume this is basically the same in the US one)
p. 570 Voldemort says
'But how to get at Harry Potter? For he has been better protected than I
think even he knows, protected in ways devised by Dumbledore long ago, when
it fell to him to arrange the boy's future. Dumbledore invoked an ancient
magic, to ensure the boy's protection as long as he is in his relations'
care. Not even I can touch him there...then, of course, there was the
Quidditch World Cup...I thought his protection might be weaker there, away
from his relations and Dumbledore, but I was not yet strong enought to
attempt kidnap in the midst of a horde of Ministry wizards. And then, the
boy would return to Hogwarts, where he is under the crooked nose of that
Muggle-loving fool from morning until night. So how could I take him?'
So, clearly, Dumbledore has set up an ancient magic protection of some sort
having to do with Privet Drive and the Dursley's, so he send Harry back
every summer to ensure his safety. It's something that's been bugging me
for a while, and I just caught that passage last night.
Mer
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