OotP: Harry's Family (minor spoiler)

[Julia]

No: HPFGUIDX 62086

Gretchen wrote:
> The book was also pretty insistant on refering to the "place you 
call 
> home".  I took that to mean that they protection was on the house 
> itself, not so much Petunia or Dudley.  If Harry returns home, he 
is 
> safe.  Petunia sealed the charm Dumbledore set and as long as he 
can 
> call that place home, where her blood resides, he is safe (p. 836 
> US).  Harry also has Lily's blood so even if something happens to 
> Petunia and Dudley, he is safe as long as he calls Privet Drive 
home.
> 
> Some other words in this exchange that stuck out in my mind was 
that 
> Dumbledore was pretty specific in refering to the fact that 
Petunia 
> was the only living relative from Lily's family (p 836 US 
addition).  
> No mention of anyone left from James' family. Dumbledore also 
talked 
> about how much he loved Harry.  I still think there is a family 
> connection between Dumbledore and Harry (grandfather, uncle?).


I like the point about Petunia already sealed the spell, so it might 
not matter, but does Harry still call Privet Drive home?  This is 
just a theoretical question, especially after Dumbledore calls it 
Harry's home, just in the previous books Harry constantly refers to 
Hogwarts as his home, or feeling his home.  Just curious.  He does 
live at Privet Drive, though, and has for the last 15 years when not 
at school, so in that aspect of course it's his home, though a 
rather awful one.  

Sirius talked earlier of James's parents, about he stayed there when 
he was 16 or 17 over the holidays after he left the Black 
household.  Wonder what happened to Harry's grandparents.  Did they 
die of old age, were they killed, what?  I'm making a very large 
assumption in that they might not have been targets, considering 
Voldemort seemed to only be after Lily and James (got away from him 
thrice as I recall), but that is a VERY large assumption.  And we 
know Petunia isn't related to Dumbledore, and Dumbledore's crazy 
brother was mentioned in that picture of Moody's  (before leaving 
for Hogwarts), the one who performed suspicious charms on a goat 
(book four, talking to Hagrid).  So I honestly hightly doubt 
Dumbledore and Harry are related.  I think Dumbledore has just done 
what we readers have done.  Watched Harry and fallen in love with 
him.

Julia :)