Dumbledore the Counselor (was: Dumbledore the General)

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No: HPFGUIDX 124394


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "dumbledore11214"
<dumbledore11214 at y...> wrote:

> 
> By the way, I suspect I am wrong on this one, so can somebody please 
> refer me  to the quote , which says that Harry cannot be touched by 
> Voldemort's servants at Privet Drive? I must have been forgotten the 
> part, because if blood protection is only against Voldemort, then 
> Dumbledore's decision is even more shaky than I thought before.
> 
> He could not be that stupid, right? To make Harry suffer at Dursleys 
> and not protect him against Bella and Co. Please, tell me it is not 
> so. :o)
> 
> 
> Just my opinion,
> 
> Alla

You're right.  Dumbledore doesn't say that Harry can't be touched by
anyone else.  Only Voldemort.  But the confusion for my lies in why
Harry was sent to Privet Dr after GoF.  If Voldemort could touch Harry
and Dumbledore said 

 . "Very well," he said, sitting down again.  "Voldemort has overcome
 . that particular barrier.  Harry, continue, please."

  - GoF, pg 696, sch

what was the sense of sending him back to Privet Drive?  And again at
the end of OotP?  If Lily's protection no longer keeps Voldemort from
touching him, then why couldn't he spend the holidays with the
Weasleys or with Hagrid or looking for Crumplehorned Snorkacks with
the Lovegoods?  And the only answer I can come up with, we don't know
the whole story, yet. There's more protecting Harry at Privet Dr than
we have been told about.