The Dursleys at Risk

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 104696

I (Carol) wrote:
If the Dursley home were protected by a Fidelius Charm, nobody would
be able to find it, not even Muggles like Aunt Marge, and the 
Weasleys could never have entered it through the fireplace.
 
But how would Voldemort know about the Dursleys, who are Muggles,
after all? ...edited..
 
I do think that the protective charm extends to the Dursleys 
--otherwise Petunia would never have taken Harry in--but
they're not watched by the whole wizarding community, only by 
members of the Order and to some extent, the MoM, on the lookout for
underage magic in Muggle communities (and particularly the house 
where Harry lives, or so it seems).
 
asian_lovr2 (Steve) wrote:
> 
> Carol, your slipping; must be old age creeping up on you. 

Carol:
Oh, dear! Is it that obvious? Forgot to take my memory potion this
morning--and found another grey hair, too.

Steve:
Voldemort
> does know about the Dursleys. 

Carol:
I *think* I meant at the time a Fidelius charm would have been
placed--that is, when Harry was a baby. My idea, if I recall it
correctly, was that the pre-Hogwarts Harry could hide in plain sight
in Little Whinging. Voldemort, of course, would have been vaporized at
that point, but the DEs would have had a hard time finding Harry,
whereas if he'd been raised by a WW family, everyone would know where
he was. I wasn't thinking of the resurrected Voldemort but of
Dumbledore's reasons for placing Harry with the Dursleys in the first
place. But of course that wouldn't be complete protection and
certainly would not be incentive for Petunia to take Harry in, which
brings us to the protective charm Dumbledore placed. (IIRC, he placed
the charm on Harry, but maybe it extends to the Dursley home as well?
Yes, I know. I need to reread OoP, but it's not my favorite book in
the series.)

Steve:
And to address another issue raised by
> someone else, Dumbledore did add the Protection of Blood, to the
> protection that Harry already had from his mother's sacrifice.
> Dumbledore performed additional  spells to enhance the protection
> Harry got from his mother. <snip>

Carol:
Right. We agree on this part. Lily's self-sacrifice (which I think
involved a charm placed on Harry before Godric's Hollow) saved his
life and caused the AK to be deflected onto Voldemort. That's separate
from the additional charm(s) Dumbledore placed on Harry (and the
Dursley home?) to protect him during his stay there. Dumbledore used
the blood protection Lily had provided but extended it to cover him
during the years between his parents' death and the ultimate
confrontation with Voldemort, but especially, I think, the
pre-Hogwarts period when he would have no direct contact with Harry.

Carol, who would leave to search for her Remembrall but has to use the
available time to catch up on posting