Harry *wasn't* abandoned

[devonturcotte]

No: HPFGUIDX 68758

Pippin wrote:
> Just starting my third read of OOP, and this leaped out at me:
> 
> "Harry was very pleased he was concealed behind the bush,  as 
> Mrs. Figg had taken to asking him round for tea whenever she 
> met him in the street."
> 
> It seems to me if Harry had taken her up on it, she'd have told 
> him what was going on.  It's interesting that Harry never thinks 
of 
> this, and goes on being cross with Dumbledore for leaving him 
> without any contact with the WW even after he finds out that Mrs. 
> Figg is a Squib.
> 
> Pippin


I don't know about that.  Dumbledore gave everyone strict orders, 
and I don't think that she would have been allowed to tell him.  
There has to be a reason that Dumbledore did not want Harry to know 
that he was being watched (i.e. he thought he might act more 
recklessly, or something along those lines).  She wouldn't tell him 
anything after the episode with the Dementors, nothing even 
quickly.  I was guessing that she was asking him over to check on 
how he was doing.  But you bring up an interesting point.  It's 
always so much easier to blame others than ourselves.
Devon