Harry's Protection (was Re: Questions)

[Geoff Bannister]

No: HPFGUIDX 118945


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Sharon" <azriona at j...> wrote:

--azriona:
> My second instinct is to ask when Vernon touched Harry and received 
a 
> shock, because I don't remember that happening?  I would assume 
that 
> touch would have been in anger, as well - otherwise every time 
anyone 
> brushed up against Harry they'd have received some sort of shock, 
and 
> that includes Hermione or Ron, which certainly would have been 
> mentioned in the books.  Perhaps the terms of the spell only work 
if 
> someone is touching Harry in anger?

Geoff:
Back to canon...

'- but before he coud draw himself up to full height, the top of his 
head collided with the Dursley's open window. The resultant crash 
made Aunt Petunia scream even louder.

Harry felt as though his head had been split in two. Eyes streaming, 
he swayed, trying to focus on the street to spot the source of the 
noise but he had barely staggered upright when two large purple hands 
reached through the window and closed tightly round his throat.

"Put - it - away!" Uncle Vernon snarled into Harry's ear. "Now! 
Before - anyone - sees!"

"Get - off - me!" Harry gasped. For a few seconds they struggled, 
Harry pulling at his uncle's sausage-like fingers with his left hand, 
his right maintaining a firm grip on his raised wand, then, as the 
pain in the top of Harry's head gave a particularly nasty throb, 
Uncle Vernon yelped and released Harry as though he had received al 
electric shock. Some invisible force seemed to have surged through 
his nephew, making him impossible to hold.'

(OOTP "Dudley Demented" p.10 UK edition)

Geoff
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