Is Dumbledore's request of the Dursleys Reasonable (Spoilers for HBP)

[Milz]

No: HPFGUIDX 133455

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "christopher" 
<christopherauk at y...> wrote:
> This is my first post, so I hope it is put together okay.  Anyway 
in 
> Chapter 3 (Will and Won't) of HBP, after explaining about the blood 
> protection (Voldermort cannot hurt Harry whilst he is at the 
> Dursleys'), Dumbledore asks the Dursleys to let Harry return one 
more 
> time, so that the protection lasts until he is seventeen.
> 
> This seems reasnoable on the surface, but imo it is not reasonable.
> 
> Here is my reasoning.
> 
> 1:  We know the protection applies to Harry, but does it protect 
the 
> Dursley's as well.
> 
> 2:  If it doesn't protect the Dursley's then Dumbledore is asking 
them 
> to risk their lives for a world, which they don't want to be 
involved 
> in.
> 
> Voldermort from what i understand, is quite capble of killing or 
> ordering killing to be done.
> 
> Christopher

I think it does protect the Dursley's to an extent. Voldemort/DEs 
haven't attacked the Dursley's either while Harry was there or while 
Harry is at school. The closest the Dursley's have come to an attack 
was the Dementor attack in OoP, but at that time, Harry was on the 
street, not in the home.

The symbolism of "home" and the "safety" of the "home" is apparent in 
the books. True, Casa Dursley isn't a loving home, but it's still 
what Dumbledore called "houseroom" for Harry. Harry is only bound to 
the Dursleys because he is Petunia's blood relative. And it's that 
blood tie between Petunia, Lily and Harry that protects both Harry 
and the Dursleys.

But...since it's more or less known that Harry doesn't like the 
Dursley's I don't think they would be a DE target. If the DEs were 
clever, they would use the Dursleys to get information to use against 
Harry.

Milz