Privet Dr. protection (was Re: Dumbledore the Counselor)

[Jane Jordan]

No: HPFGUIDX 124447


Whizbang:
> 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? <snip> If 
> Lily's protection no longer keeps Voldemort from touching him, then
> why couldn't he spend the holidays with the Weasleys <snip>?  There's
> more protecting Harry at Privet Dr than we have been told about.


Do you remember the chapter in the second book where Harry gets an owl in
his home for doing magic?  Vernon wants to throw him out, but Petunia says
he has to stay?  There is still one protection left.  By leaving Harry with
the Dursleys, Dumbledore has managed to keep one protection in place.
Petunia is Lily's blood relative.  And she's non-magical, so however badly
Harry's being treated, he is still better off there than in the wizarding
world.  Voldemort can't get to Harry *as easily* when he's in the Dursleys'
home.

JMO,

Jane