JKRs comments on Petunia

[meriaugust]

No: HPFGUIDX 113927

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Tim" <tim at m...> wrote:
> > On the whole blood protection issue, I find the whole thing very 
> > messy and some days I think I have a handle on how it may work 
only 
> > to wake up the next morning wondering what I was thinking.  What 
I 
> > do know is that nowhere in Dumbledore's explanation to Harry at 
the 
> > end of OoP does he say Petunia's constant presence is 
necessary.  
> > What he does say is, "While you still call home the *place* 
where 
> > your mother's blood dwells, *there* you cannot be touched or 
harmed 
> > by Voldemort." (Ch 37, US ed. pg 836) *emphasis* mine
> > 
> > To me that means Voldemort can't hurt Harry at Number 4.  
Period.  
> > Because that is where Petunia and he both live.
> > KathyK, For Petunia the Muggle with Minimum Wizarding World 
Contact
> 
> 
> Strange.  Didn't LV touch Harry in the graveyard at the end of GOF 
just to prove he could?
> Does this mean Harry is no longer protected at Dursley's inspite 
of what Dumbledore says?
> 
> Tim

I don't think so. Because as you said that was in the graveyeard. LV 
also confirms in that scene that Privet Drive is still protecting 
Harry, telling his assembled DEs that "while he is in his relations 
care even I cannot touch him" which is a paraphrase because I don't 
have my book handy. But since Mrs. Figg left Harry there after the 
Dementor attack in OotP and Arthur and Sirius and practically 
everyone else who wrote to him told him to stay there, then I would 
assume it was still protected.
Meri