Dumbledore and the Dursleys

[Alex Boyd]

No: HPFGUIDX 123420


I was just re-reading the first chapter of OotP, and noticed that
there is a very small bit of evidence that *someone*, at least, has
taken a *slightly* more hands-on approach to making sure that Harry is
taken care of during the summer.  To wit: 

"Mrs Figg had recently taken to asking him around for tea whenever she
saw him in the street" (2, US HC).  

If this sentence refers to tea-the-meal, rather than tea-the-beverage,
then at least some care is being taken to see that Harry gets enough
to eat that particular summer, though whether Mrs. Figg is acting on
her own initiative or on Dumbledore's orders, we can't say.  In either
case, it probably would have worked better if someone had clued him in
that she wasn't *just* a nutty neighbor--as it is, he goes out of his
way to avoid Mrs. Figg and her tea.

But, yeah, too little too late.  

Alex