Several Comments on the past Week's Digests

[cynthiaanncoe at home.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 25502

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., Vicky DeGroote <degroote at a...> wrote:
> > > A comment about Harry's Christmas Presents: How did he always 
get stuff
> > from the Dursleys by owl? Did Hedwig travel to the Dursleys with 
a note
> > attached to its claw, "Please return me with a gift for Harry?" 
If I were
> > Vernon & Petunia I'd probably be laughing my head off and I would
> > probably also send nothing more than a tissue, toothpick, etc. 
Why do you
> > think Hedwig went there in the first place to ask for a gift?
> 
> 
My (totally unsupported) theory about the Christmas present is that 
the Dursleys have been told all about the protections Harry has.  But 
they've been told that he (and they) only have these protections so 
long as they provide Harry with the things that normally accompany a 
family relationship.  So they give him clothes, food and shelter 
because they have to.  But they only give him the bare minimum (hand-
me downs and a cupboard).  One thing they have been told to provide 
is a Christmas present, so they send a tissue out of fear that if 
they do nothing, Voldemort will blow up their house.

Cindy