Danger at the Dursleys!!!

fanofminerva drjuliehoward at yahoo.com
Wed Jul 20 19:38:55 UTC 2005


No: HPFGUIDX 133569

Now that Dumbledore is dead, the magic that protected from Harry at 
the Dursley's is lost.  (Once Dumbledore died, "Harry realized he 
could move again" HBP US. page 597).  LV probably would know this.  
Harry has an established pattern of returning to the Dursley's at the 
end of the school year.  What better place to attack him?  In their 
grief and shock, other wizards may not think of this.  Even if they 
realized this and warned him, Harry probably would return out of a 
sense of obligation to Dumbledore.  ("I'm going back to the Dursleys' 
once more, because Dumbledore wanted me to," said Harry.  HBP US. page 
650).  We know Ron and Hermione will be there as well ("We'll be 
there, Harry," said Ron.  "What?"  "At your aunt and uncle's house," 
said Ron.  HBP US page 651).

What better place to attack Harry than at the Dursleys at the 
beginning of Book 7?  And what better time for someone (Petunia?) to 
use magic late in life?  I would be surprised if his visit to the 
Dursleys' was event-free.

Julie






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