[HPforGrownups] Religion and Protected!Vernon

[Kelly Grosskreutz]

No: HPFGUIDX 58462

> Meanwhile, Kelly wrote:
> >someone had tried to hurt them.  I also notice that she had no problems
> with
> >Vernon going to work, but stayed with Petunia the whole day.   Then
again,
> >there were plenty of other wizards around Vernon's workplace.  Perhaps
one
> >of them was there to make sure nothing untoward happened to him as well.
>
Ffred:

> I don't remember them being described as being in close proximity to
> Grunnnings, just that Vernon saw a lot of them on his way to work.
>
> It's actually a particularly interesting passage for me, and the only one
> which sets the two communities side by side, apparently showing that there
> are rather more wizards around than some people think...

He went across the street to the bakery for lunch.  There were a group of
guys standing around in cloaks outside of the bakery.  That's where he heard
them mention the Potters.  When he left that evening to go home, he ran into
someone just oustide the door, who told Vernon he should be rejoicing
because You-Know-Who was gone.  They were around his workplace as well.

Kelly Grosskreutz
http://www.idcnet.com/~ivanova