SHIPping and a GoF Clue (was Re: Concerns for Harry's Well-Being)

[grace701]

No: HPFGUIDX 53693

>But another thought I always have, and maybe why I love the Weasley 
>family for Harry, and support those who wish to see Harry and Ginny 
>together, is that Harry has never, not once, had someone to say "I 
>love you," to him after the age of one.  Never.  That just... I 
>can't fathom that.  

Hey Hey Hey! No H/G love here, please...lol.  Just kidding.  It 
would be nice to see a nice big happy family with Ron and Hermione 
and Harry and Ginny, but how about extending the family a bit.  H/H, 
Ron and Lavendar!, Ginny and Neville! We add two new people to the 
mix.  Harry and Hermione are already considered family so why does 
it have to be literal. ;)  Let me extend the family even more:  
Fred/George with Angelina (can't remember who asked her to the Yule 
Ball, but I think it was Fred) and perhaps Bill and Fleur, although 
he is older than her, I don't think she or he would mind. ;)

Now to the important part:

   

>I don't particularly agree with this, somehow.  I agree that Ms. 
>Figg was probably there to watch over him, maybe even his secret  
>keeper, like so many have proposed.  But I do think Voldemort 
>always knew he was staying with the Dursleys, if you read his 
>speech to the Death Eaters at the end of book four.  In summary, he 
>basically says that Harry has had an ancient form of protection not 
>even he knows about, and that he (Lord V) can't touch Harry while 
>Harry is at his relatives.  I also don't know if the fact that 
>Harry is staying with blood-relatives is relevant, I don't see any 
>proof for or against that theory.

Should we take this as a GoF clue.  Voldemort obviously knows that 
Harry cannot be touched while at the Dursleys.  Wormtail knows Harry 
visits the Weasley in the summer, at least Wormtail saw that he does 
in CoS.  I'm sure Voldemort will try to do something to Harry, or a 
Weasley, while at the Weasley's.  There's no doubt in my mind that 
Wormtail wouldn't suggest to do something during the last two weeks 
of the summer holidays. I bet Malfoy would *love* to be apart of 
anything to do with the Weasleys as well.  Perhaps Ginny could help? 
=)

   
>   
> Anne wrote: 
> > * The Dursleys, for whatever reason (perhaps we will find out in 
> > OoP), seem to have a pathological fear of all things magical. 
They 
> > refused to tell Harry not only the truth about his parents, but 
> > also 
> > the truth about him being a wizard. So Harry spent 10 years 
> > completely unaware of both his own fame within the wizarding 
world 
> > and the reasons for his unusual abilities. Dumbledore, knowing 
> > that 
> > Harry would eventually have to face Voldemort again (and again, 
> > and 
> > again), may have thought it was better for Harry NOT to grow up 
> > being 
> > fawned over as "The Boy Who Lived". (viz. the reaction of 
various 
> > wizards he runs into during his childhood, e.g. the man in the 
> > green 
> > cloak who bows to him in the bakery).
>  
>   
> I don't know about this as well.  We do know Dumbledore has not 
told 
> Harry everything about Halloween 1981, which is obvious in what he 
> says to Harry at the end of Philosopher's Stone.  And we know 
> Dumbledore didn't want Harry growing up in the limelight (Chapter 
> one of Philosopher's Stone).  But Hagrid apparently thought Harry 
> would know he was a wizard and that his parents went to Hogwarts 
> when Hagrid went to pick him up from the house on a rock in 
> Philosopher's Stone.  So, I don't think Dumbledore meant for Harry 
> to grow up not knowing anything, though he probably realized the 
> Dursleys were more prone to let Harry remain in the dark.  
> Dumbledore has never lied to Harry, but I do think he hides just 
> about everything Harry would find important about his identity 
(i.e. 
> we, and Harry, know virtually nothing about his parents or 
> ancestors, and also where the Gryffindor's heir theory comes 
from).  
> And as for my theory on Dumbledore, I think he'll pull a Yoda, and 
> die, leaving Harry completely on his own (read the Pensieve 
chapter 
> in Goblet of Fire: Rowling goes on and on about how Harry notices 
> how old Dumbledore is looking now).
>   
> Anyway, back to the Dursleys.  I do think it probable that the 
> Dursleys may be the ones to somehow have magic involved later in 
> their lives, as Rowling stated in an interview.  Dudley would be 
an 
> amusing choice for me, I would like to see Harry's reaction, and 
> Dudley's struggles at Hogwarts (think how Malfoy would react to 
> Harry's cousin!).  But I don't really think that likely.  For 
> whatever reason, the Dursleys do have a morbid fear of magic, and 
> yet they've kept Harry all these years.  That doesn't really add 
> up.  Unless Dumbledore somehow threatened them in that letter he 
> left with the one-year-old Harry on their doorstep, there has to 
be 
> something else making the Dursleys let Harry stay.  I don't think 
> it's a last stab at human decency.  I suppose we'll have to wait 
and 
> see.  
>   
> As for the Petunia is a squib theory: I find that unsupportable. 
> She's muggle-born, like Lily.  Meaning she's just a muggle.  She's 
> have to be a muggle with wizard parents in order to be considered 
a 
> squib.  
>   
> So anyway, there are my thoughts on the topic.  Guess we'll know 
> when the Harry Potter Goddess herself (a.k.a. J.K. Rowling) lets 
us 
> know.
>   
> Brittany