Petunia's protection

[Janet Anderson]

No: HPFGUIDX 114155

Dungrollin asks:

>Has anyone come up with a decent theory as to why Dumbledore wants
>him protected at Privet Drive?  Was it mostly for his protection
>before he went to Hogwarts, and now DD thinks that one little month
>a year can't hurt, if, through that, he can be sure that there's
>somewhere safe for Harry?

I think you've answered your own question.  Until he could go to Hogwarts, 
Harry needed to have that protection year-round.  Now, he needs it for the 
summer (and in case he ever really did get expelled ...)

It's a good question, though, about what happens when Harry is seventeen, an 
adult by wizard law.  If he has to spend a certain amount of time at the 
Dursley house in order to keep up the protection, then when he is old enough 
to refuse to return there -- whether he gets his own place, stays with the 
Weasleys during the summer, does the Wizarding World tour of Europe, etc. -- 
I think the protection will end.

Now, if the Dursleys had been civilized people and Harry cared about them 
and wanted to live  there, or even visit, after he left Hogwarts, it would 
probably continue for as long as Petunia was alive -- and since it's his 
mother's blood that controls it, it might live on in Dudley (!) even after 
Petunia died.


Janet Anderson

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