Is Hogwarts So Safe?

[thelinnealand]

No: HPFGUIDX 86541

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "yolandacarroll"
<yolandacarroll at y...> wrote:
> thelinnealand wrote:
> > I have read numerous accounts here that reiterate DDs claim that
> > Hogwarts provides protection for those who are within its walls.
> > Codswallop, I say.
> > <snip>
then Yolanda said many helpful things which ended in :
> To be fair, Hogwarts isn't as safe as we thought 
> at first.  Of course in PS/SS, we thought Snape 
> was working for Voldemort, then we found out 
> that Voldemort was riding on the back of Quirrel's 
> head for a year at least.  From the first book, 
> JKR told us Hogwarts was safe, but proved otherwise.
> 
> JKR has deliberately raised the stakes book after 
> book.  Soon, if not already, nowhere will be safe.  
> I do believe that Hogwarts protections offer some 
> security, but I also agree that those protections 
> are not perfect.
> 
> <snip>
> 
> Yolanda

Now me:

As long as Harry is at Hogwarts he will be an obvious and prominently
placed target where LV can find him almost anytime. 

Remember that we have seen that LVs skills are not so much that he can
perform "great" magic, but that he is adept at gathering power,
charming the people he needs (his words) and plotting long term,
devious tricks using subterfuge and even torture to achieve his ends. 

It is a fact that Harry needs his magical education and Hogwarts must
be the best place for him to be at this time. But safe? A Fidelius
charm and isolation would be safer than Hogwarts has proven to be.

I only hope that DD has other big, long gathering defences building
while LVs attention is on Harry than the ones we can guess at so far...

Linnea (Lin nay uh)