Harry's doorstep bed, basket or blankets

[Cathy Drolet]

No: HPFGUIDX 115457

DuffyPoo thus spoke:
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> 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. "

DuffyPoo:
The fact is then, there is no basket?  That's good because I re-read that chapter and couldn't find any mention of one!  If a basket isn't mentioned then I have to presume there wasn't one there, therefore, no extra letters could get stuck inside one.  If the author needs me to believe their was a basket present in which to hide spare letters, then they have to write it into the story.  JKR didn't , so their mustn't be one.  This isn't the real world after all, it's a storybook world.  A storybook baby, asleep and wrapped in blankets can stay in that position for days if that's what the author intends.


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