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

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No: HPFGUIDX 124477


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Jane Jordan"
<juanitatighan at f...> wrote:
> 
> Whizbang:
> > Dumbledore does(I fixed the typo - WB) 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 
(snip)
> > 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

I have a feeling that Voldemort would have been able to touch Harry in
the graveyard anyway.  Harry cannot be touched by Voldemort under his
aunt's roof and, apparently, at Hogwarts.  Thus all the owls to "stay
in the house" in OotP.  Voldemort may have been snookered.