The Riddle House

[amanitamuscaria1]

No: HPFGUIDX 79632

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Fred Uloth <prof_uloth at h...> 
wrote:
> At 01:45 PM 9/1/2003 +0000, amanitamuscaria1 wrote:
snip
> >Equivalent of Grimmauld Place for DEs?
> 
> Maybe. But here is something that has been nagging at me since we 
learned 
> of the magical protections placed on Grimmauld Place. Why didn't 
Tom and 
> Peter (Voldy and Wormy if you prefer) place some sort of 
enchantment to 
> protect anyone from seeing their activities the night Frank(? If it 
was 
> indeed Frank, then there is another one to add to list of repeated 
names) 
> died. Oh well...once again it was necessary to advance the plot, 
but I 
> wonder if there wasn't a better reason behind it.....

Me again - As Tom, at least, has previous experience of the place 
from killing his family, perhaps he just didn't think anyone would 
still be around? Could this be an additional hint that it is Lucius 
who owns the house now? We don't actually know if Frank was being 
paid for his gardening work, he may just have been living in the 
cottage as noone moved him.
It may, too, be the sort of feeling in PoA when everyone is in the 
Shrieking Shack - the place has such a ghostly reputation, why would 
they expect anyone to interfere?
Have you got any ideas for a better reason for not protecting the old 
Riddle House? As they didn't use Frank, but just killed him, the 
notion of maybe getting another body for Voldie doesn't come into it; 
which was the only thing that sprang to mind.
Cheers. AmanitaMuscaria