Harry's summer in the 6th book

[Arya]

No: HPFGUIDX 100768

> > Luckie:
> > I was under the impression that wherever Harry's mother's blood 
> > dwelled, that is where he would be protected. Kind of like a home  is 
> > where the heart is... or blood is. So if Petunia was with the 
> > Weasleys, Harry would simply gave to return to the Burrow to 
> > reinstate his protection.
> > 
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 bowlwoman:
> I thought about that, but to me the passage means something 
> different.  
> 
> Here's the whole quote (OotP, US Hardback, pg 836):
> 
> "While you can still call home the place where your mother's blood 
> dwells, there you cannot be touched or harmed by Voldemort.  He shed 
> her blood, but it lives on in you and her sister.  Her blood became 
> your refuge.  You need return there only once a year, but as long as 
> you can STILL CALL IT HOME, there he cannot hurt you.  Your aunt 
> knows this.  I explained what I had done in the letter I left, with 
> you, on her doorstep.  She knows that ALLOWING YOU HOUSEROOM may well 
> have kept you alive for the past fifteen years."  (emphasis mine)
> 
> I read this as Petunia has to be the one offering, not just that he 
> lives in the same place as she does.  If Dudders and Petunia had to 
> room at the Weasleys, then it wouldn't be Petunia's call to allow 
> Harry to stay, it would be Molly's.  
> 
> Like I said before, if Petunia gets a new place and allows Harry to 
> live there during the summer, then yes, the protection would still be 
> in effect.  I think she'll be on the run, tho, without a home that's 
> wholly hers.  At that point, Harry honestly has no place to call 
> home, so the protection won't work.
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Hmm, I don't know about this.  I think I agree with Luckie.  I think even if Petunia was 
living in a box on the street, if Harry was there with her and that's all they had as a 
"home" the protection would still be invoked.  I also think, if it came down to this, 
that Harry's stash of gold might put him in the position to make Petunia live off of 
him for while.  

Arya