Hogwarts ongoing staffing problems

[Richard]

No: HPFGUIDX 138428

"profuloth" <hpfgu at j...> wrote:
> Maybe Harry will use Hogwarts as his base of operation and
> skive off classes to find the remaining horcruxes. I can
> see the remaining DA members being used to help him reseach
> (about one-third to half of the DA have left Hogwarts).
> Harry will likely pick up the HBP's book for potions help,
> but will stay away from the jinks and hexes written in the
> margins.
> 
> Jason

Richard here:
I don't see Harry using the DA to do research on horcruxes, nor even 
for researching artifacts that Voldemort might have used, as this is 
too likely to result in a leak of the fact that he is searching for 
such items.  All Voldemort would have to do then is create one more 
horcrux that Harry doesn't know about, and Harry CAN'T kill him.

Here's how I see the team.  The research staff is, I believe, 
Hermione.  The aide-de-camp is Ron.  Bill will be the curse breaker, 
and the thief (can't remember his name) the breaking-and-entering 
specialist.  I suspect that Ginny will end up the fourth musketeer no 
matter what Harry says, primarily because she is already more than a 
valuable enough target for Voldemort as a perceived ex-girlfriend, as 
well as her fondness/love for Harry and the life-debt she already 
owes him.  She will likely be the second member of the research staff 
and special confidante ... assuming she is that "fourth musketeer."

Since Snape knows about 12 Grimmauld Place, it isn't a safe haven, 
and Godric's Hollow isn't, either, unless some folks forget that the 
secret is still in place in the person of Peter.  (Death Eaters who 
hadn't been informed of this secret would not be able to find Harry 
there, and Voldemort, Peter, and others in on the secret would need 
to remember to look there (or in the case of Peter reveal the secret 
to any who go to look there).)  The Burrow might be a base, as Mr. 
Weasley has observed that "half" the family owes their lives to 
Harry, and so I don't think he nor Molly would deny Harry 
anything ... including a certain daughter.  Yet the Burrow is more 
exposed, and would entail risk to the Weasley's, which I can't see 
Harry being happy to inflict.

I see Hogwart's as the best base for Harry, even if he is not a 
student there.  It entails some risk to the students there, but as 
already canonically pointed out, it is one of the best protected 
places in the WW.  Further it has about as good research resources as 
Hermione could wish, isn't under the control of the Ministry (but is 
under the control of its Board of Governors), and lets Harry remain 
in closer contact with Hermione, Ron and Ginny while they assist 
him ... preferrably as students.  (I can't see JKR blythely allowing 
her child characters quite school when she so obviously keeps pushing 
assorted life-lessons for kids in all the volumes of the series.)

But, that's all just my opinion ... which can be (and often is) dead 
wrong.


Richard, who really doesn't want to see Harry dropping out, either.