Harry's doorstep bed, basket or blankets (was: Im confused...Petunia's lette

[Geoff Bannister]

No: HPFGUIDX 115454


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Tenou" <Tenou0 at g...> wrote:
>
>
> DuffyPoo thus spoke:
> <snip>
> > Just to question...several have mentioned Harry in a basket when
he
> >was placed on the doorstep. My version has no basket just a
bundle
> >of blankets.
>
Ten'ou:
> PS does say that Harry was wrapped in blankets: 'Dumbledore and
> Professor McGonagall bent forward over the bundle of blankets';
`He
> laid Harry gently on the doorstep, took a letter out of his cloak
> tucked it inside Harry's blankets...'
>
> However, just because a basket is not mentioned doesn't mean it
> wasn't there, it might have been off page. The bundle of blankets
> could have been in a basket.

<snip>

Geoff:
There is a basket (IIRC) in "the medium that dare not speak its name"
but the book doesn't mention one.

Hagrid brings Harry on the motor bike...

"...in his vast muscular arms, he wasa holding a bundle of blankets.."

"PS "The Boy Who Lived" p.16 UK edition)

and when Dumbledore makes his exit....

"He could just see the bundle of blankets on the step of number four."

(ibid. p.18)

Where would a basket come from, unless someone conjures one up?
Hagrid hasn't got one, McGonagall arrives in animagus form,
Dumbledore isn't carrying anything.

Mark you, I agree that a 15-month old child might kick off the
blankets; I have memories of my mob when they were that age.

Geoff
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