Harry and starvation

[dungrollin]

No: HPFGUIDX 123571


> Finwitch asked:
> > Hey-- why didn't Harry and Sirius go and live in a place
> > like 12 GP at the end of the 4th book? Or even the Shrieking 
Shack?
> 
> 
> SSSusan:
> Maybe because, if Voldy found out they were there, there would be 
> no protection there?  As opposed to whatever the magic is at 4 
> Privet Drive, where apparently Voldy & his DEs *can't* attack him?
> 
> The Shrieking Shack, by way of protection, seems only to have the 
> rumors which surround it and scare people off.  Granted, the 
> likelihood of the secret keeper ratting *again* on 12 GP, as 
> happened w/ Godric's Hollow, seems small, but who wants to risk 
> it?  In fact, why take either risk on a place which doesn't have a 
> surefire, can't-attack set-up over one which *does* have it?
> 

Dungrollin:
DD's the secret-keeper for the Order, and he's not going to be 
intimidated into revealing the location of 12GP. And Sirius says "My 
father put every security measure known to wizardkind on it when he 
lived here. It's unplottable [...] and now Dumbledore's added his 
protection, you'd be hard put to find a safer house anywhere." 

I've never found a satisfactory reason for this continued protection 
at Privet Drive malarkey. If Grimmauld Place isn't safe, why does 
Harry get to stay there for a month? If it is safe, then why does 
Harry have to go back to Privet Drive at all? 

Yes, yes, to renew the blood protection - so that he can still call 
Privet Drive 'home'.  But why not call 12GP 'home' if it's as safe?