Dumbledore's hold on Petunia [was Re: Lily's Family]

[pcaehill2]

No: HPFGUIDX 107888

Celestina wrote:
[snip]
> With Petunia despising her sisters magical abilities, it would
> be just like Petunia and Vernon to just deliver Harry to an
> orphanage. Dumbledore must have made it very clear to her they
> must keep Harry under their roof. As we have seen no compassion
> out of either Petunia or Vernon towards Harry(except the scene 
> when Petunia got the Howler from DD and realized they would be 
> sentancing Harry to death if he left their home)I do wonder what 
> deal was struck. I am not so sure if magical protection was 
> offered to protect Dudley and Petunia, perhaps only while Harry
> is staying at the Dursley household.

Pam responds:
Exactly, re: no astounding compassion from the Dursley's, and that 
they wouldn't give Harry the time of day if something wasn't in it 
for them.  But Vernon doesn't know what's in it for them, only 
Petunia seems to know this in OoP, and even then I'm not sure it's 
compassion that she is showing--I think that if the danger was only 
to Harry, she might have let Vernon chuck him out.  I 
think "remember my last" was a veiled threat, of sorts--"remember 
that if you chuck him out on the street, your son (Dudley) will be 
endangered."

And the "blood protection" towards Harry only seems to be in effect 
when he's in the house or on the grounds chez Dursley.  In Wisteria 
Walk, it was powerless, I think.  What about when he attended public 
school, etc.? Was Mrs. Figg keeping an eye on him whenever he wasn't 
at home?