[HPforGrownups] Re: Harry and the Dursleys

[Lea]

No: HPFGUIDX 54644


 
 mlle_bienvenu <mlle_bienvenu at hotmail.com> wrote:
>Which makes me wonder, what were they going to do >when Dudley and 
>Harry were no longer in school together? (If he >hadn't gotten his 
>Hogwarts Letter) Dudley was going off to Smeltings >while Harry was 
>going to somewhere else. Since he would no longer be >in the company 
>of a family member, would that have put the other >school in danger of 
<a Death Eater attack?

>Mlle Bienvenu


Me:

This does make sense, but IMHO I believe that the Dursleys were very happy to be sending Harry off to school (as long as it wasn't to Hogwart's, of course) - then if there was any blowing up to be done - it would be at Harry's school, not at their precious house.  And even the thought of sending Harry over to Mrs Figg's for the day was preferable, in their minds, to leaving him home alone.  Any attacks/blowing up would be done at Mrs Figgs house - where Harry was.

Also, in GoF, Voldemort makes reference to the protection provided by his relatives - 

"But how to get at Harry Potter? For he has been better protected than I think he even 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. And then, of course, there was the Quidditch World Cup..I thought his protection might be weaker there, away from his relations and Dumbledore."

I also would love to know the contents of the letter that Dumbledore left with Harry the night he left him at the Dursleys.  Let us hope that JKR will let us in on that secret before the end of Book 7.

 

Lea :)



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