OOP: Blood Protection or No Protection

[M.Clifford]

No: HPFGUIDX 66327

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "pickle_jimmy" <kemp at a...> 
wrote:
> 1) Sorry if this had been done before (I've been busy for a week 
and 
> missed a huge bunch of posts)
> 
> 2) Is the OOP FAQ (which was a brilliant reader's digest version of 
> the discussion till then) being added to as more topics come to 
light 
> and have a general concensus answer?
> 
> 3) Now for my question:
> 
> How much protection does Privett Drive offer Harry? No-one seems 
> concerned for his safety while he is actually *in* the house, but 
> extreme measures are taken while he isnt (eg the fact that he 
> needed "eight or nine" wizards to escort him to Grimmauld Place).
> 
> He is just round the corner from Privett Drive when he is attacked 
by 
> dementors, Mrs Figg has to get him back inside the house.
> 
> After the attack, Mr Weasley & Sirius are only concerned with him 
> staying in the house.
>  
> Dumbledore is having him followed where ever he goes - whether at 
> home or at hogwarts (he is followed on his trip to hogsmead)
> 
> So, obviously the house is safe, and seemingly outside the house 
> isn't safe.
> 
> So what's the big deal about him calling Privett Drive home. He's 
> only there during summer holidays - he might just as well have been 
> at Grimmauld Place with Sirius - wouldn't that be *just as safe*. 
> 
> If this blood thing runs deeper than protection inside the house, 
why 
> all the other precautions? If Harry is still in danger of attack 
what 
> is the good of the protection? It's no use if it only protects him 
> against Voldemort - Voldemort missed the end of the prophecy, so 
> doesn't know it is him that is destined to kill Harry - he could 
send 
> dementors himself to finish Harry at Privett Drive.
> 
> Help
> 
> Pickle Jimmy

Good points all Jimmy,
This part of the book is terribly confusing isn't it, I expect that 
the "place to call home" charm is linked only to Lily's sacrifice and 
hence would be something that LV is quite aware of. Dolores Umbridge 
sent the dementors, aside: [is that only because she is a truly sick 
sadistic woman or is she in league with DE's? ] and conveniently 
Mundungus was away at the time, 'on a business expedition'. 
Excuse me for saying so, if its been looked over before but...

it is a little *too* convenient for Mundungus to have been absent 
that evening. Exactly *who* enticed him with the cauldrons, was it 
part of a DE conspiracy, and if so, how is it that they appear to 
have a *lot* more knowledge of the OoP's activities, than they should?
 
Valky