Harry and starvation

[cubfanbudwoman]

No: HPFGUIDX 123575


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?

SSSusan:
Thanks for the canon on 12 GP, Dung; I confess to having forgot about 
that. :-|  At this point, since Harry's almost of age, I could see 
his staying there being allowed.  

*Unless* DD knows more about this Privet Drive protection thing than 
we do -- like that Harry has to be there for the *reverse* protection 
of the Dursleys to stay active?  That's all supposition on my part, 
of course, but I rather like the notion that DD offered them such 
protection when they took Harry in.  

Just kinda thinking out loud here.

Siriusly Snapey Susan