Ancient Magic - blood-protection/home/Mark Evans

[laylalast]

No: HPFGUIDX 96653

finwitch wrote:
> > 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.

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> Finwitch wrote:   
> Harry has never been really able to consider 'the Dursleys house'
> as his home. 

Lilian:
Sorry, my mistake.
Instead of 'But if Harry cannot call Privet Drive home anymore', I 
should have said: If Petunia will not provide a home to Harry 
anymore ...

<snip>
> Finwitch continued:
> 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. 

Lilian:
I don't think the protection is based on whether Harry experiences it 
as 'home' -in the sense 'home is where the heart is', but the place 
where he starts from to undertake all activities he undertakes in his 
life. Home in the crudest sense of the word. Going to school, even if 
it's a boarding school, is not going home - the moment something 
serious happens at school (like in CoS) you're send 'home'.

Neither do I think that DD has made an error - he himself phrases it 
as 'allowing you roomspace' when explaining the blood protection to 
Harry in OotP. Again, the crudest sense of the word 'home'. 

> Finwitch again:
> BTW- remember Mark Evans? 
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Lilian:
I do, but for the moment I'm inclined to sign him off as a red 
herring as I have the feeling that JKR  tries to throw us off the 
scent of the true clues. But that's entirely my personal opinion and 
whether or not Mark Evans shows up at Hogwarts, we won't know until 
Harry has sorted it out.

Lilian