OOP - another of them silly JKR loopholes

[marephraim]

No: HPFGUIDX 64501

Ali wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Brigitte" <bbb35_2000 at y...> 
> wrote:
> > 
> > Recycling Spoiler Space:
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> > > @@@
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> > > ***
> > > +++
> > > >>>
> > > &&&
> > > @@@
> > > ###
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> snip
> 
> Yeah, I don't understand why Harry has to stay at the Dursleys for 
a 
> month. From Dumbledore's speech, it would seem sufficient for 
Harry 
> to stay at 4 Privet Drive for a couple of days as long as it 
> remained his formal home. Perhaps the longer stay is just for 
> literary purposes.
> 
> Ali

What Dd tells Harry tells /us/ two things. 1) the protection works 
through blood and Harry must consider the place 'home' --  because 
the protection works through Aunt Petunia. 2) the protection is 
location specific, i.e., it is precisely Number 4 Privet Drive that 
is a safe haven for Harry so long as Aunt Petunia lives there and it 
is his home. This is why all the owl posts in chapter two, as well 
as Aunt Petunia, keep emphasizing that he is not to leave the house.

M.E.