Lilly's touch was:Magical protection -- the Dursleys

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No: HPFGUIDX 45014

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "Steve" <bboy_mn at y...> wrote:
> bboy_mn with rambling thoughts:
> > Barb P quotes canon:
> > Voldemort also used this phrase to refer to the protection Harry 
has
> on Privet Drive.  In the same chapter you site, he says,-
> 
>  "...  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..."
> 
> bboy_mn replies:
> Based on Voldemort's statement, it would seem that Harry's location 
is
> not a secret. Voldemort knows Harry is at the Dursley's, he just 
can't
> do anything about it. Notice that Voldemort said he can't TOUCH 
Harry
> their. He didn't say he couldn't see, find, or detect him there.
> Admittedly, one could say that the turn of a phrase doesn't create
> absolute truth. But the implication seems to be that he can't harm
> Harry, not that he can't find him.
> Personally, and not supported by canon, I think it is some kind of
> shield charm; some type of barrier that prevents Voldemort from
> getting to Harry even if he knows where he is and can see him. I do
> see some weaknesses in this theory and I can also see how it could 
be
> twisted to  imply a Fidelius Charm, but I'm still having a hard time
> accepting something as limited as the Fidelius Charm.



Me:

Ok, I've just had a thought.  It says while Harry's in 
his "relations" care.  That does not specifically say the "Dursley's" 
care.  If it were their care, are we talking "just" when he's in 
their house?  Then he's not protected at the elementary schools he 
went to.

What if, and I know it's a stretch . . . but what if somehow there's 
another relation there . . . say his parents are somehow still 
involved in the afterlife?  Perhaps this is still referring to the 
protection of his mother dying to protect him?  I mean, if we think 
about it, and hmm I hope I have all this right now, but Dumbledore's 
gleam in his eyes, maybe that referred to his knowledge or fierce 
determination that Harry remain safe?  Perhaps he realizes that 
Voldie is somehow getting close to figureing out Harry's secret, or 
that Voldie maybe is simply thinking that's the whole thing but it 
really isn't all of it?  Why is Dumbledore sending Harry back to the 
Dursely's for one last summer?  Perhaps to show Voldie that it's not 
what was protecting Harry?  So Voldie is more afraid of Harry by 
virtue of seeing it is not all his mother's protection?

Ok, so maybe I'm stretching this way too far out there, but does 
anyone else have thoughts on this?  I'm intriuged at the "relation's 
care" rather than stating just the Dursley's names.  It makes it that 
so much more could be read into this :o)

Mrs Bonsai (Julie)