[HPforGrownups] Many Replies to 2 Weeks' Posts, please scroll down to find *YOUR* NAME!!

[Melanie L Ellis]

No: HPFGUIDX 58118

On Sun, 18 May 2003 03:59:54 -0000 "Catlady (Rita Prince Winston)"
<catlady at wicca.net> writes:
> Some brilliantly insightful listie (but I don't remember which one) 
> suggested that the Devil's Snare trap was intended for Neville, who 
> is good at Herbology, as the chess was for Ron, the flying keys for 
> Harry, and the logic puzzle for Hermione. IE, that Dumbledore 
> expected them to take Neville with them rather than to leave him 
> paralyzed on the common room floor. 

Hmmm, that's an interesting take. But, then, who was the troll for?
Marcus Flint or some of his giant Quidditch cronies? <Snicker, snicker -
no, I'm not trying to cut you down! :-)>



> Ali wrote:
> 
> << I do not believe that Harry's protection dies the minute he is 
> away from the Dursleys. I do believe though that it becomes weaker. 
> It would have been at its weakest at the end of the school year - 
> which just happens to be when Voldemort struck in GoF; perhaps this 
> is no coincidence. >>

To which CatLady wrote:
> I think so, too. That would explain this bit at the end of GoF: "Ron 
> told Harry about a meeting Mrs Weasley had had with Dumbledore 
> before 
> going home. <<She went to ask him if you could come straight to us 
> this summer," he said. "But he wants you to go back to the Dursleys, 
> 
> at least at first." "Why?" said Harry. "She said Dumbledore's got 
> his reasons," said Ron,>> Harry has to go back to the Dursleys to 
> recharge the protective magic, and THEN he can go to the Weasleys.

I've always assumed that Dumbledore needed Harry to go on to the
Dursley's because he already has protections in place for him there, DD
has nothing set up at the Weasleys. The first time Harry went to the
Burrow, it was not with DD's blessing, but he must not have thought the
danger very great or he wouldn't have allowed Harry to spend 2 weeks
there without protections. In GoF, I think Harry was only there a couple
of days, and again, DD would have no reason to suspect real danger,
despite the DE's and the Dark Mark at the World Cup. Now that Voldemort
has risen again, though, DD's not about to let Harry go off to spend time
anywhere that he is not protected. That was my take on it, anyway.

 

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