Dumbledore & Dursleys-What DD Knew

[finwitch]

No: HPFGUIDX 123877


 
> Tayla:
> 
> Because we don't exactly know what was in the letter to Petunia, I
am not going to speculate on that one.  However, here is a thought. 
If LV showed up on the Dursley's doorstep, would he NOT kill them? 
NO, let's face it, they are the embodiment of EVERYTHING LV HATES
about muggles.  I also think that he would kill them because the
remind him of things that he would rather not think about.  Keeping
Harry around is preventing LV from showing up on the doorstep.
> 
> Besides, I think that it is also becoming clear to Petunia that
muggles (alright, her family only but still) are in a very real danger
that they are not equipped to handle.  Like it or not, they are going
to NEED a wizard around if they are to have a CHANCE to survive.
> 
> Why would Harry protect them?  Let's look at this one a bit, no
matter how bad the Dursleys are, do they really need to become
victims?  Would Harry in good conscience allow them to become victims
to LV?  No, he wouldn't.  They may have mistreated him, but he would
be sinking to worse than their level if he just let LV have his way
with them.  That would be completely out of character for Harry.  He
just doesn't want to be there getting treated the way that he has
been, I don't think that Harry wants them dead.
 
Finwitch:

You know-- I think that this 'blood protection' Dumbledore put in
doesn't *really* count. Because Harry never was able to call the place
*home*. I don't know if Harry has realised that thoroughly yet. The
protection is in that well, Voldemort&DEs *believe* it's effective and
won't so much as *try*.

Before Hogwarts, Harry's visit to the zoo and his empathy for snake in
the cage... 'at least he (Harry) got to visit the rest of the house'.

After his first year, early book Two, Locked up in a room with bars in
the window... look at his dream that clearly presents how Harry
considers that place to be: A cage with a sign; Underage Wizard. (And
Dobby outside of it- Harry Potter will be safe there) - A cage,
closing up to a prison. He emphatises with Dobby - seeing how Dobby
has it yet worse than he does-- as a slave.

In the third book, Harry gets a glimpse of news - Sirius Black had
escaped from Prison (and Vernon complains because they don't say which
Prison it was). Perhaps this inspired Harry - and so he follows the
example set by (as he finds out later) his godfather. Harry escapes
the prison.

What kept Harry at Dursleys after that? Where did his determination to
leave disappear? Did he get trapped in the fact that he now had
something to intimidate them with?

Still, home is not a place where you intimidate the other people
living in it just to be able to do your schoolwork... No. The #4
Privet Drive is not a home to Harry. It never was.

With Sirius, Harry now gets limited physical liberty (he can go out
for a jog and he doesn't need to be weeding in heat anymore).
Spiritally, he's still trapped. As the Dementor visit makes it
painfully obvious to me, as now, Harry's physically safe/free, but his
soul isn't. After all, Dementors don't, strictly speaking, kill - they
just make you feel *miserable*. (Which is what Harry feels Vernon's
goal in treating him is).

Me... wishful thinking, perhaps - Sirius didn't truly die; he was, as
Luna said, hiding behind that Veil. Because Harry had to *believe* he
had died, in order to be protected from possession. Beyond the veil,
as I feel a fanfic coming to me - Sirius has a long talk with
Lily&James, and then he goes to a time before he went into Azkaban.
(Like Hermione got that TimeTurner). Remember that Quibbler article?
About Stubby Boardman, a lead singer of the Hobgoblins? It's the
Stubby Boardman Sirius will live his life as after he comes out from
behind the Veil. As Stubby, he composes a song called 'God Rest Ye,
Merry Hippogriffs' - as a tribute to Buckbeak. (Sirius *was* singing
it on Christmas, being happy). The songs are a therapy for him to
fully recover from his troubled youth in 12 Grimmauld Place, and Azkaban.

His secret lifeout is under Fidelius Charm, protected by a fellow
Hobgoblin (say, Griphook the *goblin* for example). This requires
great deal - as he must go trough with the knowledge of how Harry
suffers and do nothing - until *after* the thing in MoM happened. It
pains him, but he'll endure it - because he must. His task is not to
guard Harry's life - as we all must die eventually - but his soul.

Honest, I *don't* think it's good for Harry to intimidate Dursleys to
get what he wants/needs - (one thing when it was only Sirius, but the
whole order now?) I mean really, if Harry must be intimidating people
to get any peace, what does that mean to him morally? And I feel that
well, he *should* be getting BIG trouble for that failed Crucio. That
he'd even *think* of casting such a thing. I think he's on the edge -
the edge that might have him fall to Dark Arts.

And I see Sirius consider the very thought of casting an unforgivable
curse as a bad sign, whereas Dumbledore would argue that Harry's
disability to cast it was a good one...

Finwitch