Privet Drive (was Harry and starvation)

[dungrollin]

No: HPFGUIDX 123580



> 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?
> 

TrekkieGrrrl wrote:
Perhaps the Blood thing made the protection of Privet Drive 
stronger? Harry was able to leave the house and go to school and 
stuff while living in Privet Drive, whereas I don't think it would 
be wise for him to cruise around at Grimmauld Place 1-11. He is safe 
INSIDE GP 12, but apparently he can move around in the neighborhood 
of Privet Drive.
That IS one of the things that has irked me too though :o)

Dungrollin:
Hmmm... Safe enough to wander around Privet Drive and get attacked 
by Dementors?  


And SSSusan wrote:

> *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.  
> 

Dungrollin:
Indeed, I wouldn't put it past DD to know more than he was letting 
on... One thing I'm sure of though, is that if Mrs. Figg is DD's 
local guardian for Harry, she will know all the ins and outs of this 
protection business. And if she was in the Order the last time 
around, she would have known James and Lily too. I shall be ticked 
off if book 6 doesn't open with Harry having tea with her and asking 
some important questions (and about those Kneazles, too). 

Mind you, he *is* a teenage boy, and unfortunately batty old women 
with too many cats and houses that smell of cabbage have a tendency 
to remain batty old women with too many cats and houses that smell 
of cabbage - even when you know that they're batty for an 
interesting reason. So he may still avoid her as much as he can, and 
conveniently (for the plot) forget to ask any interesting questions.

Oooh I hope not.