OotP: Harry's Family (minor spoiler)

[Julia]

No: HPFGUIDX 62009

Vicky wrote:
> Near the end of the book DD tells Harry that as long as he 
> goes "home" to his family (the Dursleys)once a year, V can't hurt 
> him, that he will be safe.
> 
> How literally are we supposed to take this?  Is Harry ever in real 
> danger from V?  This might indicate that only in Book 7 Harry's 
life 
> will really be threatened by V, since chances are he will start 
his 
> job after year 7 and thus "not" return home that year.
> 
> This bothers me.  It bothered me yesterday when I read it and its 
> bothering me even more today.  


My turn!  Dumbledore, when referring to the Dursleys', and I don't 
care what Dumbledore says, I refuse to refer to that place as 
Harry's home, I believe meant that he was untouchable there, and as 
a child that was immensely important.  Also apparently, he had Ms. 
Figg and others looking after him as child (Diggle had shown up 
before he went to Hogwarts, along with others in major Muggle 
areas).  As he's grown and gone to school, that has become less and 
more important.  Harry can protect himself to a degree now, but I 
think Dumbledore basically wanted a safe haven for Harry when he 
wasn't in the wizarding world.  While Harry was completely on his 
own, in other words.  And honestly, I'm hoping that it will be a 
moot point after book seven, considering that's the end of the 
series (that's all JKR plans to write), and if Voldemort isn't 
history by then, I shall be slightly miffed.  And if Harry does 
manage to defeat Voldemort in his seventh year, what moron would try 
to fight him afterwards anyway?

Julia :)