Leaving Harry unprotected

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No: HPFGUIDX 86258

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, > "Robert Jones" 
<jones.r.h.j at w...> wrote:
> > At the end of OOTP, the members of the Order let Harry go off 
with 
> > the Dursleys unprotected.  Earlier in the book, JKR makes a big 
> deal about people watching over Harry and always having an 
elaborate guard any time he goes anywhere -- from Privet Drive to 
Grimmauld Place and later movements anywhere.  But after warning 
Vernon to be nice to Harry, the Order just lets him go without anyone 
to protect him.  Is he safe anytime he's around Petunia (because of 
that blood charm)? <snip>.
> > Boris the Bewildered

I assumed all the "guard" hooplah was due to the prophesy orb at the 
MoM.  At the start of OotP the Order knew Voldemort wanted that 
crystal orb and that he or Harry were the only two people who could 
lift it.  At the end of OotP the "prophesy orb" had been destroyed. I 
do not think it had/has anything to do with Petunia/Lily's "blood", 
especially since when Voldemort had been "restored" in the graveyard, 
he WAS able to physically touch Harry and was no longer bothered by 
Lily's "old magic" type protection. 

Lynnette, who thinks Snape IS a good guy, even if he is NOT a nice
guy!