[HPforGrownups] Clue for the "ancient protection?"

[Kelly Grosskreutz]

No: HPFGUIDX 57638

>
> --- 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.

I did wonder about how well Harry would've been protected had he been being
watched by Marge or Yvonne.  If Petunia knew they would be incapable of
protecting him, I find it interesting that she would not just say so to
Vernon.  If she isn't saying so to Vernon, then there is at least one thing
she is keeping from him.  I'd love to know what else she knows but hasn't
told anyone, even her husband.  Because for some reason, I find it hard to
believe that the protection would extend so far as to one of Petunia's
Muggle friends, even if Petunia did entrust Harry to her care.

Kelly Grosskreutz
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