Harry's Protection (was Re: Questions)

[finwitch]

No: HPFGUIDX 118977



> azriona:  
> > I think the only thing that might be considered questionable on 
> this count is just afterwards, when Crouch!Moody is "half pulling, 
> half carrying him" back to his office (Chp 35, pg 673 US version).  
> Crouch!Moody certainly intends to kill Harry, yet he seems to have a 
> good enough grip that he doesn't let go of Harry until they've 
> reached their destination.
> > 
> 
> Valky:
> Well with this in mind I am willing to carry on the investigation 
> under a presumption that harry needs to *conciously* perceive the 
> threat for the magic to invoke.

Finwitch:

If that holds true -- I fear that Harry is NOT protected at Dursleys.
You never know when Petunia knocks him unconsious with a frying pan
and Vernon strangles him?

Ans as it is, I think Dumbledore's 'protection' is faulty per se, as
well. 

As Dumbledore put it (As I remember it): 
As long as Harry can call his home the place where his mother's blood
dwells he's safe there - - 

>From this I figure that the protection spell has 3 limits/conditions:

1) It's in force only where Petunia lives. (4 Privet Drive, possibly
also the hotel and the hut on the rock while the Dursleys were there.)
Therefore, Fake!Moody had no trouble carrying him with intent to kill.

2) It requires both Petunia's and Harry's living presence.

3) It's in force when Harry can consider the place(1) a home.

However, point 3 is faulty. I mean, since when was Harry able to
consider 4 Privet Drive his *home*? After all, he spent 10 years
wishing for some unknown relative to come and take him away, and
afterwards, *Hogwarts* was more a home to him, in book#2 he sees his
room as a prison cell(a dream showing his emotions literally), Sirius
offered him a home in book #3...

IS it enough that Petunia lets Harry to stay and Harry stays? How
important is the word *home* in this? Perhaps, if Harry puts his
feeling - that 4 Privet Drive is NOT his home and never was - into
words, that alone breaks the protection spell. (Then again, CAN may be
required as well).

Finwitch