Harry's doorstep ... basket or blankets - Swaddled

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No: HPFGUIDX 115499


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Steve" <bboyminn at y...> wrote:
> 
<snip> (but, basically I'd see the basket as film contamination or 
else what we might expect for an abandoned baby - none is mentioned 
in canon)

 > 
> swaddle - 1. To wrap or bind in bandages; swathe. 2. To wrap (a 
baby)
> in swaddling clothes. 3. To restrain or restrict.
> 
<endsnip>

Swaddling is done to VERY young babies, not just to keep them warm 
but to rigidify them (they're VERY floppy before 6 months). I don't 
believe a baby of 15 months would be swaddled this way. He could 
probably toddle (walk) and say a few words already, if comparable to 
a muggle baby (both he and Ginny seem in fact to have had an 
unparalled - in the muggle world - memory of events that were 
clearly early in their lives).