[HPforGrownups] Clue for the "ancient protection?"

[Ladi lyndi]

No: HPFGUIDX 57620


--- Kelly wrote:
> I was rereading the first two chapters in PS/SS
> last night, when I came
> across this passage.
> 
> The Dursleys are discussing what to do with
> Harry when Mrs. Figg calls to
> say she can't take Harry because she broke her
> leg.
> "You could just leave me here," Harry put in
> hopefully (snip what Harry
> could do alone).
> Aunt Petunia looked as though she'd just
> swallowed a lemon.
> "And come back and find the house in ruins?"
> she snarled.
> "I won't blow up the house," said Harry, but
> they weren't listening.  (US
> hardcover p. 23)
 

Lynn:

Wow, Kelly, that opens up some new thoughts. 
When taken out like that, it no longer reads as
Aunt Petunia being nasty.  It sounds as if she's
well aware that the Dursleys are Harry's
protection and without them there, Harry is
toast.

Perhaps the reason she dismisses the two
suggestions is because they wouldn't work, there
would be no protection for those people as there
would be at Mrs. Figg's.  Or, perhaps the
protection extends to whomever the Dursleys place
Harry for care.

Lynn

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