Ancient Magic - blood-protection/home/Mark Evans

[finwitch]

No: HPFGUIDX 96606

> Lilian:
> 
> For the other issues - Harry's blood protection is what Petunia 
gives 
> him - a home. The only way for Voldemort to absorb that as well, is 
> to let Petunia give him that home as well.
> 
> But if Harry cannot call Privet Drive home anymore (hence the 
annual 
> return) one of the conditions of the pact of blood protection, 
> the 'providing a home', is no longer met and the pact itself 
becomes 
> invalid. Although I have a strong suspicion that the ancient magic 
> connected will rebound on Petunia ... it is IMO what she is so 
afraid 
> of.

Finwitch: 
 
Harry has never been really able to consider 'the Dursleys house' as 
his home. I mean just think of it - in his years in the cupboard he 
wished for an unknown relation to come and take him away. You don't 
usually wish to get away from home, do you? He goes to Hogwarts, that 
is more a home to him than the Dursleys' place ever. This is also one 
reason why Harry felt so strongly about saving the Philosopher's 
stone and most of the others. (Umbridge spoiled Hogwarts for him) 
Sirius is the one who offered him a home - and 12 Grimmauld Place 
would not have been that, either.

In each book, Harry's desire to leave Dursleys (and Vernon's wish to 
be rid of him) grows, as well as his awareness that Dursleys' place 
is not his home and never was. Once he has fully realised that, 
(particularly now he's grieving for Sirius) the protection is off.

I think that's another error of Dumbledore's - Harry may live in a 
house where his mother's blood dwells, but he still is not truly able 
to call it his home, and never was. I don't recall Harry ever 
referring to 4 Privet Drive as "home".

BTW- remember Mark Evans? Though he is just a 10-year old, well... 
EVANS. Lily's (and Petunia's) maiden name was Evans. So um - what if 
Mark Evans is Harry's (and Dudley's) second cousin or something from 
mother's side, and Dumbledore just didn't know about that?

-- Finwitch