Opening of Book 6 - Theories, Anyone?

[annemehr]

No: HPFGUIDX 114346

> > Annemehr, before:
> > Actually, now that I think of it (better late than never), we 
> > already had this sort of thing in the beginning of OoP: Dementor 
> > attack in Little Whinging, Harry whisked off at Dumbledore's 
> > behest and given info by Sirius, and trouble with the Law 
> > including a hearing where he very nearly *didn't* get off. 
> 
> Dungrollin:
> Ok then, how about this: 
> Voldemort knows that Harry's safe from everyone including him when 
> he's at number four, because that's where his mother's blood dwells. 
> However, is anyone protecting Petunia and Dudley?  It would seem 
> obvious that if the only thing protecting Harry at No.4 is that 
> Petunia (and possibly Dudley) live there (and this protection 
> appears to cover only Harry), then would try to make them stop 
> living (there), and he could surely do that with a minimum of fuss.

Annemehr:
Er...Theoretical Blood Protection and Its Practical Application was
never one of my strengths (don't bother seeing my published works). 
Still, sure, you'd expect him to think of taking out Petunia and/or
Dudley.  It's not against the Evil Overlord rules or anything, is it?

Dungrollin:
> So, Petunia and/or Dudley will be attacked/kidnapped/killed, and 
> Vernon throws a massive wobbly and chucks Harry out.
> Any takers?

Annemehr:
You do realise, don't you, that something very near to this *also*
happened in the beginning of OoP?  In other words, we're not so much
theorising here as we are plagiarising. :P

Let's not have them killed, anyway.  I want Harry to have his
seventeenth birthday living with them, and they somehow come to know
that he is of age and can do all the magic he wants.

Other than that, I seem to be fresh out of ideas, unfortunately. 
Maybe I'll think of something in the morning...


> Dungrollin
> 
> PS (gloomily) Actually, in all of the books something exciting has 
> happened before he gets to Hogwarts on September 1st.  PS - loads of 
> stuff, CoS - Dobby and the flying ford anglia, PoA - the Grimm and 
> the Knight bus, GoF - all that kerfuffle at the QWC...

That's bad?

Annemehr, confused