Where home is ... (was: Re: OotP: Wandless magic...

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No: HPFGUIDX 63499

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Jennifer Boggess Ramon 
<boggles at e...> wrote:
> 
> 
> At 9:14 PM +0000 6/23/03, Brigitte wrote:
> >DD said that Lily had given Harry lingering protection because she
> >died saving Harry.  Then he said, "While you can still call home 
the
> >place where your mother's blood dwells, there you cannot be touched
> >or harmed by Voldemort. ... You need to return there only once a
> >year..." (US, Ch. 37, p. 836)
> 
> My first thought on reading this in the book was as follows:
> 
> 1) Voldemort had Harry's blood running in his re-born body, having 
> taken it in the graveyard in GoF.
> 
> 2) That means, by default, that he has Lily's blood running through 
> his veins by way of Harry.  We know this worked, because he can 
touch 
> Harry now.
> 
> 3) So what would happen if Harry called home the place where 
> Voldemort now dwells?  Would he be protected there as well as at 
the 
> Dursley's (or, perhaps, instead, assuming that the ancient magic 
does 
> not provide for two homes)?
> 

The thing is, it's not a matter of *Harry* deciding on whether a 
place is his home or not. It's a matter of his blood-relative 
accepting him, and thereby providing him with a home. What makes a 
place home, in other words, is the willingness of the relative to 
provide a home for Harry. At least, that's how I understood 
Dubmbledore's explanation.

Naama