Fetching Harry - A New Theory

[serenadust <jmmears@comcast.net>]

No: HPFGUIDX 51985

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Eileen <lucky_kari at y...> wrote:
> People were asking who would fetch Harry from Privet
> Drive this time. I say "The Ministry of Magic."
> 
> We end GoF ith Fudge insisting that Harry is mentally
> unstable. That Harry needs help. That Dumbledore is
> the worst thing possible for Harry, encouraging him. I
> can see Fudge wanting to send Harry to St. Mungo's for
> a check-up.


This works beautifully with my theory that Amos Diggory is going to 
be causing lots of trouble for Harry.  He was consumed with grief at 
the end of GoF, but when he emerges from this stage he's going to be 
angry, and Harry will be the target of his anger.  He's in a 
position to put major pressure on the MoM, and we know that it won't 
take much for Fudge to cave in to pressure from the grief-stricken, 
MoM employee Diggory.  After all, who's going to be a more 
sympathetic figure?  The (according to R. Skeeter) unbalanced, 
disturbed Harry or the father of poor Cedric?

Eileen continues:
<snip>
> And it's out of character for Harry too. Harry is
> always being forced to the event or place. Harry will
> not go to St. Mungo's unless he has to. And being
> dragged along by Ministry officials certainly
> qualifies. We know Harry wouldn't put up a fight. That
> underage use of magic thing.
> 
> There is some form of protection on Privet Drive, but
> we don't know what type of protection it is. I'm sure
> it doesn't allow Voldemort to waltz in and take Harry
> away, but some harried Ministry officials who just
> want to drive him to his mental health check-up? That
> might be a really dumb idea, but would Fudge even be
> his enemy under these circumstances? I believe he'll
> have entirely convinced himself by the beginning of
> OotP, if he hasn't already, that Harry is a basketcase
> and needs help. In this case, it shouldn't be harder
> for them to take Harry with them than it was for the
> Weasleys to take Harry. Now, if Harry were to resist,
> it might be different. But Harry isn't going to resist
> the Ministry of Magic, I'm pretty sure.
> 
> I have no idea what he'll do at St. Mungo's. No-one's
> ever really satisfyingly explained that, even though
> everyone's certain we'll see tge okace eventually.
> It's too important not to be seen. But, I anticipate
> there may be problems getting Harry out.


Yes, but he really must get out in time to go back to Hogwarts 
(under a cloud of suspicion and distrust).  Perhaps the Weasleys 
will manage to rescue him somehow, putting Arthur and Molly more 
openly at odds with Fudge than they'd like to be at this point.
I really think this works.

Jo Serenadust, even more excited about June 21