Dursley's charmed, bribed, afraid?

[Tom Wall <thomasmwall@yahoo.com>]

No: HPFGUIDX 50887


Lynda writes:
re the letter left with baby Harry <snip>
... It probably also included information on how to 
contact Dumbledore in case he was needed, which 
would have annoyed the Dursleys even more, IMHO, 
than being stuck with magical child. 

I reply:
Maybe the letter also clued them in about Mrs. Figg?
We're never really told exactly *how* it is that 
the Dursleys know her, are we? It seems a little
serendipitous that they'd just HAPPEN to meet her
somewhere.  Probably more likely that Dumbledore
told them in the letter something like "...blah blah 
blah and I cannot stress to you how important it is
that he stay safe, so if you ever have reason to go
off and need to leave Harry to be babysat, then 
contact Arabella Figg at this address and she will be
glad to keep watch over the boy."

Or something like that. After all, she lives two streets
away from them, so it's not as though they're just outside
in the garden chatting together or anything.

-Tom