Another Dursley Question

[ebon_askavi]

No: HPFGUIDX 46409

Perhaps Petunia had something left over from Lily's time at Hogwarts; 
an enchanted box, where you could address soemthing to a witch and 
wizard, put it in, and it'd be forwarded to an owl post that 
processes the letter/gift/etc?  I could see her using something magic 
to spite Harry--because what was the gift of one old sock but 
something to purposely degrade and hurt Harry?  If they wanted to 
seem nice people, they would have given him a better gift or nothing 
at all...a dirty sock just makes THEM look bad, to an outsider, and 
is obviously a way to hurt Harry.  They go out of their way to hurt 
him.

Or perhaps Dumbledore has something where he sends an owl to pick up 
such gifts, and they have to send SOMETHING so they don't raise his 
suspicions, so they grab an old sock they don't need, wrap it up, and 
send it with the owl.  I don't think, in normal circumstances (they 
might if they feel Voldie-threat was high), Dumbledore & Co. would 
open Harry's gifts.  I guess even if they did, they wouldn't raise a 
ruckas about an old sock when it could have been a death-curse.

There's probably more of a muggle/wizard support frame than we see in 
the books, at least at hogwarts, because muggle parents like 
Hermione's DO need contact with their magical children.

::waves to the group:: Hi, I'm new. ;)

"ebon askavi"

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "amberhillcrest" <amberhillcrest at y...> 
wrote:
> There are several instances in which the Dursleys send Harry 
gifts.  The one that comes to mind is the tissue and I think that 
they also gave Harry one of Vernon's old socks. I am wondering how 
the Dursleys got the gifts to Hogarts in the first place.  They 
wouldn't use Owl Post because they don't like magic and even if they 
didn't feel that way, they don't even have an Owl with which to send 
anything.  They can't use regular mail because as Hermione explained, 
any Muggle who looks at Hogwarts will just see an abandoned house.  
> 
> So, how do they get the gifts to him?  
> 
> I apologize if this has been brought up before.  I am trying to 
make a connection between the gift-giving and the speculation about 
the role of the Dursleys in Book 5.  
> 
> -Maureen Amber